Having had a second glance at my previous thoughts regarding the apparent congruent and co-extensiveness between spinozian philosophy and Open-theistic theology, I have pondered on the affects of the issue of 'free will'. The unpredictability implied by quantum mechanics has done away with the Newtonian world view, in which all future events are predetermined. From a Darwinian world-view, there always is a choice: a variety of possibilities, some of which are retained by selection. The defining characteristic of a cybernetic agent is some degree of control over that selection. Because of their capacity for thought, people, moreover, are not only free to choose between given possibilities, but able to conceive novel possibilities and explore their consequences. However still restricted by this particular 'selective science'. A theistic-evolutionary perspective on the other hand could quite dexterously state that despite an individual still possessing the inevitable physical advancement in humanity [via natural selective evolution], one still does also still possess the quality of [a conscious] 'free will' with the benefits of a deeper purpose in life... Just thinking out loud.
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