Free Will Requirements

What components and concepts would be required for a scenario of free will?

Based on the function of reality, as we know it, would the history and current state of the world fit reasonable expectations for such a scenario? Since free will insinuates intentional cause of the scenario where it exists, I’ll consider the 1 intending to cause the scenario, is God. I’ll make this assumption, based on a conceptual best estimate, that God’s main intention is to cause free will to exist. I explained more detail on this assumption, in my last post, where I attempted to distinguish the main functions of God; Distinguishment of Divinity.

For this intention, it seems God would have to create 3 basic components. 

1) A unit which has free will 

2) A platform for everything to exist within

3) Factors (besides the free will unit)

Using these 3 components, it seems there should be incorporated, the concepts of complexity and uncertainty. Complexity seems required so that there are enough relevant choices for free will, and uncertainty, so that choices are not certain and obvious (hence free).

1. The unit with free will would require some functions, to be capable of the concept of free will. It seems the free will unit would have to be able to perceive its environment and factors within the platform, in order for it to be capable of making choices of any relevance. For the unit to be aware of its decision having an impact on factors, it would need to have information regarding the causes and effects of the factors, and of its own actions. For the information to be updated for changing conditions and new choices, the unit would have to be capable of saving new info which it perceives about other factors. The free will unit would also need to be able to access any info which is saved, that is relevant to the factors involved in any given choice. Besides these capabilities, in order for the unit to have its own freedom of choice, it would have to be created in a way that its decisions were not caused intentionally, by God. 

2. The platform would likely need to be big and extensive enough that the free will unit cannot easily find the boundaries. If the platform was too small or simple, there would be minimal choices to be made, and choices might be so simple that they would be obvious. If choices begin as very obvious, then it makes free will obsolete. If the overall scenario for free will, is intended to be an extensive scenario, it seems there would be a variety of situations and environments for the free will units to exist within. To allow potential learning and development of the units (as a more significant scenario fro free will), the units may have the opportunity to develop increasing information, and methods of perceiving info, regarding the platform and factors. Assuming this concept, the platform would need to be extensive and complex enough that, after the units’ development of perceiving info, that they could still not easily find boundaries of the platform, or it may become obvious that they are contained within a limited platform, and lose motivation or potential to expand. 

3. Factors would need to be numerous and complex enough, for similar reasons. Factors should be complex so the free will units could not easily perceive all info to a degree of accuracy that decisions were all obvious. If the free will units had enough info to be certain of all factors, certainty would outrule any potential choices to be made. A complex enough environment also allows for a more significant overall concept of free will, since circumstances regarding decisions would not become redundant quickly.

The world as we know it, seems it may include these components.

1) A unit perceiving, saving and accessing info about factors within a platform, would be equivalent to humans using senses to perceive, and memory to save and access info. A complex creation, to avoid intentional decisions by God, could be evolution and the complexity of the human brain. 

2) A platform extensive enough that the units do not easily reach the boundaries, or lose potential/motivation to develop, could be this universe. 

3) Factors which are complex enough to allow relevance of choice, without scenarios which are highly obvious or certain, could be all the elements and laws of physics within this universe. 

The history and present tense of this world and universe, seem to be fairly coherent with the conceptuality of; Free Will Requirements.