REALLY, DID HE DECIDE FREELY?

An unfree choice? (Taxidriver)

Toni "Poika" Illi left the office when he was 55 years old. Everybody respected him in the government machinery. But nothing stopped him from leaving there. Nothing compelled him  to stay. He didn't want to be like everyone else. Human nature didn't coerce to be like an everyman. "Does it generally cause to be?", I wandered looking at these human beings over there, in their planet Earth.

Illi was sitting in the chair twiddling with his chubby fingers when his thoughts started live their own life.

"It would be easy to use violence, if I wanted to use. To beat, to hit to pieces... But I don't want to be cruel. A jerk. Yeah. That is! Going bananas," Toni Illi snarls like an urban jungle.

"I could come and smash you like... like a mirror scattering all over the floor. However, I just don't want. I don't want to plan... to decide to kill you. 

Nothing external to me, demons or madmen, hold back from tearing apart you. No, I don't acknowledge. I have no inner inhibitions. I just don't want. Don't yell. Come on let's no yelling!  

I walk in your home, open the door, throw away a blanket and start strangling. But I said it already. I don't want."

Possibilities exist beyond the natural reality. And he has been thinking a while. He is free to go. It is possible him to leave his home. Going is a possibility, but it does not appear now in space. Freedom possibilities are in human thoughts. Toni Illi causes them within his own psyche.

ON UNFREE persons

A human but a dogmatic mind

1) A person x is not able to think than in one way.

2) Free act requires possibilities to do otherwise.

3) However, a person x has not a possibility to think than in this one particular way. (Maybe x is brainwashed or a mind of x is political.)


4) Therefore, x is not free, and x is not a freethinker (from 1, 2 and 3)

(free Mr. Gaddafi´s mind!)

A Personal Problem

A word "a face" and the face

A person x grasps a meaning of the concept "a face", and grasping it causes an image of a face in the consciousness of x.

But how is that causality possible in the Universe? Further, how does the connection of grasping and a mental image connect with a person's physical body or its central neural system?


I have not been understanding that.



(René Magritte, "The Rape", 1934)

IS PHILOSOPHY USEFUL?

The Death of Socrates: but why?

Philosophizing -> Mental healthy or better reasoning are final goals.


Exercising -> Healthy or look or admiration or sex are final goals. That is, one exercises because of wanting to look good. One believes by exercising one will look good.

According Socrates virtue is sufficient to happiness meaning to focus on self-development rather than the pursuit of material wealth. But the choice is your personal - problem, a mental problem.
(A program on Socrates - to listen) 



Ville: Well, tell me why philosophizing would be useful?

Marjatta: Nobody is home. A man's question you boy.

V: Thus, what's it?

M: So where it?

V: That' is.


M: Tee! What it?

V: So, where it?

M: No, get it!


V: Could it? Wank it?

M: Yes I told it already!


V: So what is it?

M: If nobody is home, then philosophizing is.

And she points a finger at her head at the same time.

A goal as a cause: doing A because of B. B is a goal and doing A is an effect which would lead to the goal B, or so a Marjatta believes in, and thus she chooses to do A. However, Marjatta does not grasp why B materializes in her thoughts to the desiring thing. What materializes B, is a mysterious choice within her body.