Amendments

It has been pointed out to me that humanism does so take responsibility for itself, that humanism is every bit as free as free will, that humanism distinguishes itself from fatalism by biting its thumb at fate and the predetermined. The humanist's days are his own and his future his own making.

What is still interesting is how these sorts of ideas shake out in daily life, the ways the same logic can bring two actors to opposite conclusions. There is still an element of personality to it, I suppose. He is a curious beast, personality.

So, what is personality then? If we are in control of our own character and are operating by the same principles what right does it have to claim distinctions? If you allow that personality is given to you, you have something of a quandary on your hands.

I suppose you could claim to have constructed your own personality through the accumulation of decisions along your freely willed path, but would you not still fall victim to some element of chance?

And what of those experiments that show brain waves flashing before your conscious recognizes its desire to click the experimental button of its own volition?

I wonder what quantum mechanics might have to say about this all. What does the possible existence of parallel future states (or even present states) really mean?