Science does not disprove free will but does free will disprove science? One asks, but who is that one who asks. We are according to the cliché, on a rock hurtling through space and time but there is this mystery – no contemporary events are causally connected (Whitehead). There is just a general, universe-al now, the present moment. Time and personal identity are syntheses which are useful, in fact essential. Some even say essentialising or creations which we can hold in our mind because mind created but have no ultimate ontological grounding. Buddhists would hold that this annihilates the self; the advaitin counters by pointing to the uncontradictable nature of the consciousness. It never is not. Its freedom is the primordial superimposition of continuity in time on to the changeless Self which is eternal.
There is no I to do anything or the I that is purported to do things is not any thing. Astavakra, the ascended Dude says:
cf:
ascended dude
Happiness belongs to that master idler to whom even the closing and opening of the eyelids is an affliction, and to none else.
Swami Nityaswarupananda adds in a note:
Master idler - The expression refers to the man of Self-realisation, who is completely inactive. He feels even the little non-volitional action of closing and opening the eyelids to be a limitation and painful.
(from
Astavakra Samhita XVI.5)
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