FREEDOM IS NATURAL …
Freedom must have limits, there is no freedom for anyone when everyone can do whatever they want without consequences. We should strive to have freedom under the law.
„Freedom“ is a phenomenon in the natural world. This phenomenon – & indirectly also the question of free will – is examined on the basis of various system-theoretical ideas. It is argued that freedom can only arise in partially determinate and partially contingent systems & that freedom is a matter of degree. The article considers types of freedom & their possibility conditions in simple living systems & in complex living systems with modeling (cognitive) subsystems. In simple living systems, types of freedom include independence from fixed materiality, inner rather than outer purpose, unblocked & integral activity, & the ability to choose or change environmental constraints. In complex living systems there is freedom in the satisfaction of lower-level needs, which allows for the realization of higher potentials. Different types of freedom also manifest themselves in the formative subsystems of these complex systems: in overcoming automatism in subjective experience, in reason as an instrument of passion, but also in reason, which dominates passion, in independence from information Colonization by the environment and in the mobility of attention. Taking into account the diverse freedoms in simple and complex living systems enables an all-round view of this diverse and important natural phenomenon.
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