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Free will

Okay so, let me get the story straight. First of all, what is free will? Cause if we don't come to a global definition of it, the possible explanations that might come afterwards won't lead to a solution. Free will, as it seems to me, is the ability to choose. Being able to make decisions for ourselves. Now, on a neural network level, this might rise some issues. Psychology of memory has proven that all the information we store has a property called 'weight', through which a memory (an object, a person, a fact) will be more relevant the more it is used and reinforced. This way, with the simple task 'think of someone you know in your life', there is this first person that will pop up in your mind and the reason for it to be there might be due to its recent use, to its relevance, or many more reasons. But our consciousness didn't necessarily choose that one person as the one we 'consciously' want to think of on the first place. In a similar way, w...

We can change the world

I'm inspired.  I'm inspired because I'm seeing hope.  And I'm seeing it from people admired by thousands, millions of other people that will hopefully get also inspired by them. I'm inspired because we are, little by little, leading to a change, the most important one, and that is how the collective human being perceives itself.  For thousands of years we have condemned people for the choices they have made in certain moments of their lives, we've put them in categories that would chain them forever to a personality or tendencies they no longer believe in.  "People don't change", we used to say. And we said it to justify saying and doing horrible things to the, just because they belonged somewhere or did something some people might be against. But hey, people change, yes they do. Our bodies are change, our lives are change, and so do our minds.  And it is OKAY to think or feel something for a while, and it is OKAY if that eve...