Determinism and Free Will
I just finished watching an episode on the show - "The Good Place" which talks about determinism and free will. The episode triggered so many thoughts in me about what I had understood about these concepts from the Bhagawad Gita. The Hindu philosophy talks about "Karma" - cause and effect in human life. Every action has a cause and it will eventually have its effect in an endless cycle of "Samsara" - birth and death. Everything you are doing and going through is a result of your past karma and your present actions determine your future. When I read it for the first time its easy to think that you are trapped and everything in life is pre-determined by your past karma, the circumstances you are born in, your environment, your genetics and that's the entirety of your existence. Where is the place for free will? Does it not exist? In the show I was talking about earlier, the main character Eleanor is wondering about the same thing and another character ...