Fate vs Free Will
Which is the more powerful force, Fate or Free will?
“I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.” — Invictus.
The argument of fate versus free will is one that has persisted since the beginnings of philosophy, so the question remains, which is the more dominant force? I believe that the decisions made by oneself are all the product of free will and that there is no higher power governing our decisions. This perspective is perpetuated in the story of Romeo and Juliet, can be supported by our basic human rights, and can be enforced by many scientific principles. Our destinies are and can be directly attributed to our decisions.
Firstly, the characters of Romeo and Juliet are constantly executing their own free
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Quantum mechanics, which has not been falsified and has repeatedly been proven correct, theorizes that particles can be in two states at the same time and will decide to stay in one state or another when seen by an outside observer (Quantum Mechanics). To understand this claim, imagine a cat in a box, you do not know if the cat is alive or dead unless you open the box, in quantum mechanics this means that the cat is both alive and dead at the same time, when you observe the cat, one of its states collapses and you are left to observe the state which the cat presented itself. In Quantum mechanics, there is also a principle called the Heisenberg uncertainty principle; it states that there is a fundamental limit to the precision in which it is possible to predict the position and velocity of a particle, meaning a particle can be in several different places simultaneously (The Uncertainty). So what does this mean for our argument on free will? This evidence shows us that particles execute some form of free will, the particles are constantly choosing what state they want to present themselves to the observer and therefore it is impossible to determine what its state will be (Quantum Physics); this both provides proof of free will through the choice of the particle and falsifies determinism as it is