Chemical Predetermination

This was sparked by a conversation in the comments on another blog. I'm fleshing out a few idea's, so it might wander a bit.

The concept is fairly simple. We use chemistry to study the interactions between different types and forms of matter and energy, which, due to the way the universe is constructed and operates under, react in certain predictable ways in any given environment.

A vague but accurate description.

At what point does that reaction get free will? What, inside the skull of a human, exerts influence on the outcome of the reactions going on inside? You can poke around in there all you want, you won't find it.

If chemical reactions behave the same way in the same conditions, then everything going on inside your skull right now is happening the only way it can. That means that the reaction going on inside you head, all your thoughts, are the only thoughts you could have had.

Every thought you will ever have in your life will be predictable result of what came before it, all determined before it began.

But wait, you say, thought is effected by input! what input? The environment that surrounds you and feeds into your brain is as set in stone as your reaction to them.

Bing bang theory postulates a theoretical beginning to the universe, one that we might eventually understand fully. Observation of the universe as it is suggests that in the end, it will eventually end with universal heat death.

If you have the beginning of the equation, and the solution, the work in between is implied to have a predictable structure.





I'm going to throw this up on the the blog instead of letting it languish in the draft folder like most stuff i've written, so i can remember to flesh it out and work on it. :/