Saturday, April 08, 2006

10 points about Vitamin

1. It took a long time from ancient Eygpt to early 20th century to discover vitamin

2. Vita = Latin for life, amine was dropped to amin when not all vitamins are found as amines

3. Vitamin for the family = kids

4. Vitamin M = what my mom called "money"

5. Vitamin for the mind, body and spirit = Yoga

6. Vitamin for the "superiority feels good" = dogs

7. Vitamin for the "respect of differences" = cats

8. Vitamin funding the "current world order" = messages such as "shut up, get a facelift, go on diet"

9. Vitamin for the "new world order" = when pornography didn't exists

10. Vitamin for the corporations = leadership

Thursday, April 06, 2006

Free Will is not really "free"...

Definition from Wikipedia
"Free will is the personal belief or the philosophical doctrine that holds that humans have the power to choose their own deeds. Such a belief has been supported as important to moral judgment by many religious authorities and criticized as a form of individualist ideology by writers such as Spinoza and Karl Marx. As typically used, the phrase has both objective and subjective connotations, in the former case indicating the performance of an action by an agent that is not completely conditioned by antecedent factors, and in the latter case the agent's perception that the action was incepted under his or her own volition."

"The principle of free will has religious, ethical, psychological and scientific implications. For example, in the religious realm, free will may imply that an omnipotent divinity does not assert its power over individual will and choices. In ethics, free will may imply that individuals can be held morally accountable for their actions. In psychology, it implies that the mind controls some of the actions of the body. In the scientific realm, free will may imply that the actions of the body, including the brain, are not wholly determined by physical causality."
As I pondered on the meaning of "free will" it comes to mind that free will exists, yet it does not, at least not absolutely. Can one choose where and whom, one will be born as? Can the poor famine suffering kids of choose to be born in US instead of Africa? Maybe yes, maybe not...depends on who you talk to.
Can one choose one's vocation? Maybe yes, maybe not...for a few of my secondary classmates who chose to be a doctor some 11 years ago does not happen by chance neither by absolute free will. They were well suited for the call, has intellectual capacity to start with and other factors such as opportunities and other favourable conditions that exists long before they day the decision was made. They may not be even aware of it. Is that choice in time really "free"?
As humans, we are a product of prior experiences. How can "experiences * experiences = synergy of experiences"? Pure high level probabilities maybe is the answer why things happen the way it happened, why we choose what we chosed.
At the end is choice really important?