John Brodix Merryman Jr.
1 min readJun 8, 2022

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What if both determinism and free will are flawed premises?

We are mobile organisms, which necessitates this sequential process of perception, in order to navigate, so our experience of time is as the point of the present, moving past to future. Which we model as narrative flow and physics codifies as measures of duration.

The reality is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. Potential>actual>residual.

There is no literal dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

Energy is thus "conserved," because it is the present, creating time, as well as temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

As the present, energy then goes past to future, while the patterns it generates go future to past. Energy drives the wave, while the fluctuations rise and fall.

Our conscious state also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past. Suggesting that consciousness is manifest as an energy, which is causal.

Though it is the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy, feeding the flame, while the central nervous system sorts the information. As such, we are driven by our desires, which are mediated by our judgement.

While the notion of free will is an oxymoron, given the premise of will is to affect and without cause, there is no effect.

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

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