"Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass: and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be play'd on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me."

William Shakespeare, Hamlet; Act III Sc. II

There is something inside each of us that we are afraid of.

It doesnt comfort you, unlike many other things you turn away from, like turning away from fierce wind in the face. It doesn't make you happy. Yet there is an aquiescence to it from somewhere inside you. You identify with the proposition, but you might not know how.

Fear can be overcome.

Free will vs determinism

The ironic thing about free will vs determinism is that if humans have no control over our actions, we will judge people on their actions allowing them lack of accountability, whereas with free will and control over our actions, we will judge harshly and ruthlessly.

For example, if someone drinks too much and takes drugs which hamper the physical and cognitive goals in their life as well as impacting other peoples lives; you can judge them harshly in that they made their choices, or pity them and attribute what had occurred in their life to date caused those unhealthy decisions and habits and enable the omission of any ‘will-power’ to change.

Soft determinism states that there is both a determined component and a free will component to decisions.

Our biology, experiences and learnings are represented by neuronal pathways and connections in our (note, ever-changing) brain. Determined information is stored in the brain and body and is the place where the determined component of our decisions comes from.

Our pre-frontal cortex and other structures in the brain enable the ingestion of new information on the fly and neuro-plasticity enables the brain to change. Neuro-plasticity itself is influenced by activity such as play vs danger, neurotransmitter interactions, external drugs, and hormones. Our brain enables the rapid evaluation of new information and produces probabilities of different outcomes for a range of decisions. It would seem that we have an opportunity for ‘free will’. While scientists cannot fully understand the brain yet, nor do we understand the entirety of the universe, the uncertainty of free will still remains.

If we think about it this way; if we knew every single variable that existed as a factor at the very beginning and birth of the universe, we could correctly determine all properties of any individual particle at any point in time. however, quantum mechanics has shown that measuring particles can change their behaviour. So perhaps we only ever have probabilities of what can happen.

Assuming a component of our decision making is from a form of free will, it follows that we can still influence our own situation willingly despite our prior experiences. By orchestrating events in our lives in order to provide the highest probability of opportunity for a choice at a certain point in time, we can optimise for outcomes we want.

Thus,

Yesterday is concrete. Tomorrow is indeterminable.
Yesterday is finite. Tomorrow is infinite.

Infinity, the mind and our future.

The Human Being makes an infinity of infinities, that is an infinity of possible sequences of the universe, each one of which contains an infinity of pathways. The finite is the past, depending on the decisions and actions we take in the present. 

It is logical to make the assumption that: any determinate and finite being exists in relation to the entire world that surrounds it. Now, assuming that only our past is finite, and our future infinite, our past is concrete and corresponds to the world around us. 

Is our future necessarily determinate or (at least) restricted to our world? Or, is it possible that it isn't? Is it possible that other realms are accessible in some way that would make our future indeterminable?

I believe we do have input, but I believe our future is partly determined only for the reason that we must stay connected to the world we are living in. The remainder of the input, I believe, is a mixture of conscious and unconsious drives.

Our future is determined by all the 'decisions' and 'actions' we take in life.

The determined part of our future does not include free will. In these situations we are influenced by the events that have preceded in our lives. Concrete things like where we live, work, play. We then make 'decisions' and 'actions' based on those preceding circumstances.

However, I believe unconsious processes proceed and significantly influence OTHER 'decisions' and 'actions'. These processes are not determined by preceding events. I propose that they could be influenced by forward connections to another realm such that we can touch on possible futures in order to 'cheat' our way to the most favourable one. Even if the other realm is a figment of our imagination or dreams - our brain is capable of fathoming a large number of future realities.