"Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without."
~ Nikola Tesla
I want to be careful not to unwittingly push the notion that we ourselves do not have value, that we are merely dying flesh. It couldnt be further from the truth. WE are not this body, this man/woman. WE are infinitely much more, and it is not until we step back and understand this, by observing the machine, that we may take the first steps into who we truly are.
With love,
Doc
Do you believe what Nikola Tesla is implying here, that the notion of absolute free-will is naught but an illusion?
I believe that our bodies obviously inhibit absolute free will. He says man is a machine, and indeed he is, but behind the machine is much more. Like all machines, they are limited in what they can do. Sometimes my will is to fly, but I know the machine, and thus know better than to jump out of a plane without a parachute.
But where did that will to fly come from but from a prior stimulus leading you to make said decision wishing to fly? Your will, too, is subject to cause and effect.
Conscience is like, in many ways, a compiler.
thank you for sharing