Blog 5 "The Matrix"

Free Will is the ability to make a choice and no one interfering in that choice. I believe that we do have free-will. I say this because we as people can make our own choices, decide what we want to do and how we want to do it. The problem is not in finding out if Free-Will is certain. The problem is in the decision-making process in our minds. What I mean is that we do have free will, but because of our way of thinking, we will always make the same decisions because of what we have grown to know and how we react.
In the Matrix we see how Neo lives in The Matrix, not knowing if it’s real or not. We see how he sees the “world” as a vague and unreal world to him. Since he already has this view sinking in his mind, Morpheus is able to convince him to make the decisions that lead to him being unplugged from The Matrix. If we really think about it, if Neo was someone who wasn’t lonely or someone who was happy, he probably wouldn’t have left the Matrix. The point that I’m trying to make is that we do have free-will to make our own decisions but most of the time we will make the same decisions because we have never done otherwise. Another way that we can look into this is by the idea of Determinism.
Determinism is basically the idea that everything that happens, is caused by something else in order to push it into fruition. I believe that this is true, but not to the extent that Laplace claims it to be. He states that nothing happens without a cause. I understand that. The only thing is that he says that the same cause always produces the same effect. I disagree because the effect depends on the decision of the person in the cause. I probably won’t react the same way as someone else because we are all different in character and values so that cannot be determined.
If free-will is based on us being able to make our own decisions then we do have free-will. The problem is not in the concept. The reality of it is that we need to consider many possibilities. We have to consider our upbringing, knowledge, and beliefs because these things all determine the paths and choices that I will make.