> > does consciousness emerge from matter or does matter > > emerge from consciousness? Or is something else > > altogether happening... > > salyavin: > I've been reading about free will... > >From what I've read, 'free will' is an idealist notion.
You cannot have both 'free will', and at the same time, be determined. That would be a contradiction in terms. And, another logical fallacy. Either we're free or we are bound. If we are free, then there would is no need for a yoga or a meditation technique. If we are bound, the main question then becomes 'How can we free ourselves?' Apparently there has never been in the history of the planet a single person that could cause change at will. "In philosophy, idealism is the group of philosophies which assert that reality, or reality as we can know it, is fundamentally mental, mentally constructed, or otherwise immaterial." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idealism
