A snapshot of the soul.

[TAO]

Hey Tao. sorry for quitting on you. I guess I felt like we were starting to repeat ourselves.

Lol, nah, no biggie =). I just wasn't sure if you had just forgotten or weren't sure or what not.

I'm trying to point out in my theory that if one is bound by the interactions of particles to define their existance, whether one can locate a first cause or not they must always have a preceding thought to cause the next. It demonstrates the exact opposite of free will. One can never have an 'uncaused' thought.

Yah, but what I'm saying is that if everything is caused by another thing no matter how far back you go, technically you've always existed in one form or another. If you've always existed, you are by definition free willed because you are just being manipulated, not caused. If you have no beginning, you cannot have been completely created how you are, because there's always somewhere else to look.

In other words, in order to not have free will, your complete situation must be created for you. However, if you've always existed (and thus, were not completely created), this cannot happen. Thus you have free will, or at least some form of it.

Particles are wagging you, instead of you being the master.

Particles do wag, but eternity likes wagging back. It actually hurts my head thinking about what I am talking about... I don't like thinking outside of time very much. =P XD