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Posting this since it’s relevant to past experiences, and because I think it’s important to know about it. I strongly encourage you to read it.

It’s all about information.
Streamlining the consumption and personal incorporation of information.

Where will it all end?

Quite recently I heard about a friend of mine being told that “There are no choices, that’s just not how it works” by her parents, when she had told them about something she had chosen to do.

In my opinion this is really not a good thing to tell your children, especially youths, as it often can be quite a hard time because often you haven’t quite figured the world and your look at it out yet.

However, that is not the only issue with that statement. The other is that essentially, the statement is wrong, or at least that’s what I think. To me, life is made up entirely of choices (if we disregard what I’ve previously written about not having a choice), and these choices is what makes up your everyday life. Actually it may not seem so to you, but this is because you’ve learnt to filter the choices that aren’t very important to you out since it would be too much work to revaluate your choice every time.

So, you can see it as follows: Life’s full of choices (and probabilities), and the only thing you have to do is to find the choices you don’t have, and make the decision you want to make (No-one should decide what you should do with your life).

And at last I’d like to say that as everything is subjective my friend’s parents’ statement may be true to them, but that is by no means a view you should impose on anyone else. And: Remember that the world is full of possibilities; you just have to find them.

Me - “I’ve got to much to do, today I have to [long list of things].”
Friend -”No, you don’t have to, there’s always a choice.”

The conversation above is where it all started. After it I’ve thought quite a lot about it and come to some conclusions about it: First: You always have a choice, Second: You never have a choice. As this might be a bit confusing, so let’s bring some clarity to it shall we.

You always have a choice
Usually when you say “I have to…”, it’s most oftenly about something trivial as for example completing and handing in a homework, or buying food, We all know that we don’t really need to do these things, but the consequences of not doing it is bad for us (I.E. You get bad grades, or you have to starve). But as I said, we all know this, so let’s take another example.
Scenario: You are totally paralyzed and you know that in just one minute you will die; nothing can prevent it or change it in any way. Do you still have a choice then? Yes, because you can still decide what to think, and how to feel about dying.
You always have a choice because your mind is always your mind, and within it you have full control (wheater you use it or not).

You never have a choice
This is all based on predestination. If you know the state of everything, absolutely everything at one moment, you would be able to predict how the next one would be from what you know. Applied to your mind this means that every choice you make is made based on a number of facts which are predictable, and therefore your choice is too. But don’t forget to take this knowledge into account when making your presumed choices, as it also affects your actions. So you can’t say “Let’s [Some stupid action, e.g. something criminal]” because you would have done it anyway.
So because everything’s dependency on everything else: You never have a choice.

What it all comes down to
Sadly enough we never have a choice, however, most people never notice this because of the “illusion of choice” that they live in, an illusion even I live in most of the time.
So, Do we have a Choice? Yes and No, yet Neither.