The Governor of South Carolina and the myth of free will

The irrational actions of the Governor of South Carolina are the latest evidence in the case against free will. After an eight year friendship with a woman from Argentina a dream love affair has become a moral nightmare. Regardless of whether he totally abandoned reason in favor of emotion or not his actions make us feel that he made a free will decision. He lied about his whereabouts, and what he was really doing, having an extra martial affair. If he really possessed free will, the power to choose between good and evil, right and wrong, moral and immoral, then, in fact, he is a sinful, immoral devil of a man to say the least. However what if he is the latest victim of a moral sham, we call free will?
Men think of themselves as self caused beings, an in case like this, they believe their choices originate from them alone; nothing causes them to do what they do. They either believe that their choices are completely free of any influence(s) acting as the causative agent of thought, or at least if there are any influences that they are unable to alter in any way the intent of their will or that of their actions. The validity of responsible for their choices requires that action(s) correspond directly to the intent of the will, regardless of the outcome. If the two do not directly correspond with each other than men consider themselves exempt from responsibility, insisting that the influence was of nature sufficient to disregard or alter the intent of their will thus rendering a contradiction between it and their actions. This they believe makes them free from the stigma of culpability.
This perceived ability of men to step in and out of responsibility like traveling in and out of the past or future is an enigma. A dark saying that seems to apply only to men, for nothing else in creation is imagined possessing it. It allows men to transfigure almost at will into an Aristotelian god, an immovable mover who acts upon things in existence without the benefit or dearth of things acting on him. They are like men, despite being deprived of sight from birth that can choose from among the colors of the rainbow. No rational mind would accept that such a man has ever existed because the thoughts of man are dependent on the composition of his brain and its reaction to the internal and external stimulus that it receives.
“. Never a thought has come or gone without the use of a brain.”

The mind does not act without the brain being acted upon. It sets idle waiting to be invited to act in reality. The thoughts of their minds are the results of their brain reacting in accord with its composition and that of the event, entity or circumstances interacting with them. Thus the mind, the surrogate mother of any notion of free will, is helpless to exclude itself from being the step child of cause and effect, because of it dependency on the function of the brain. No better example of this can be found then that dreadful disease, Alzheimer. This hoarded disease, the slow continuous deterioration of the brain has a corresponding degenerative effect in the mental realm. This disease demonstrates that the mental operations man are not super ordinate but subordinate to that of his body. It is not a mind over matter but to the contrary matter over mind.

Matter feels the brain with sensation and the brain fills the mind with emotion and modifies it, if it can with reason. Where men make chooses the last thing of thought that passes through their minds, even after an arduous course of reason, is that of how they felt about it, not if it makes senses.
No better example of this comes to mind then that of the Governor of South Carolina and his cheating heart. However, not just him, for history show many other, mayors, congressmen, president etc … who have acted similarly. Despite the Governor’s religious moral code, it was no match for the call of Mother Nature upon his soul. The Governor, presented with two genuine alternatives in this matter, chose between his wife and the outside woman, he found himself unable to resist his insatiable desire to be the outside woman. He did not actually choose to whom he would be attracted it was in his jeans (genes) whether he like it or not. The Governor met his wife by animal attraction and in like manner he met his Argentine angel by animal attraction. The latter overwhelmingly was the fittest for the time he found himself living in.
The fact of his wife’s legal right to his desire does not automatically entitle her to his affection. Nature surely had something to say, something to say that trumped the moral misguides of this man and that of others. It is a misnomer for her or anyone else to believe that she was the only possible match for that particular man. When she met him and up until the time of the romantic intruder’s entrance into their lives, his wife was the biological superior in his desire, but nature dethroned her in favor of another, not her husband. It (nature) burned the unforgettable memory of her angel’s sensuality upon his senses, her smell, her touch, her voice, her smile, sensation which nature forbid him to ignore, sensation with which his brain by composition was commanded to obey , filling his mind with the thought he must think and the emotional longing for her beside him the me must feel.
Maybe he is truly sorry for doing what he did, and maybe not. Maybe he was helpless forced by causality to answer the calling of his own nature? Maybe men have a will just not a free one? Maybe as the Governor actions have shown us and Sir Francis Bacon admonished us,
“nature to be commanded must first be obeyed.”

Dancing with BO Barack Obama and the State of the black union

SAT test measure of rich kids intelligence not poor blacks according to august luminaries at the SotBU

Panelists at the State of the black union symposium argued that SAT test were bias in favor of the wealthy. The bias is not emanating from the test content but from the wealth held by the  parents . It is their wealth or their lack of wealth that determines where their sons or daughters will score on the exam according to the panelists.

“Talent is equally distributed among all people.” said one panelist

Those attending the symposium were told SAT test scores do not measure intelligence but the wealth accumulation of the parent. This explains why Black test taker score considerably lower on these exams than whites, Asians, and Hispanics.

Asian on average score in the 1600 percentile, whites in the 1500 percentile and Latinos in the 1300 percentile. Blacks on the other hand score on average in the 1200 percentile.

“ Read Scott Page’s book “ complex systems.” said a panelist

 A particular panelist suggested  as a non bias replacement for the SAT , the complex system. This system  measures intelligence by inclusion. This approach promotes intellectual diversity.  A diversity that takes the bad with good in that it look upon test score as just different  points of view. The  panel believes this system  will provide  employers with a  richer source of intellect,  diverse and free from the problematic SAT.

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