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This little essay is in response to the partially inaccurate video included below.
There IS a self that is making the decision: the ONE self.
Platonic Surrealism calls this absolute free will.
The ONE self has complete and total free will.
When you seem to flow with the ONE self, you seem to have
free will, and when you don’t seem to flow with the ONE self,
you don’t seem to have free will.
Platonic Surrealism calls this apparent free will.
Ultimately there is only one being that as part of its nature convinces itself that it doesn’t have free will.
If you practice Platonic Surrealism, you may perceive absolute free will, apparent free will, illusory free will or the free will of becoming.
Illusory, free will is the normal ‘free will’ that people think that they have, but which is not actually free will at all.
Now, as Bernardo Kastrup says, you can do anything you want, and that feels like free will.
But you cannot CHOOSE what you want, so you don’t actually have free will.
Now there’s a little trick you can learn in Platonic Surrealism called ‘The art of Becoming’, where you can learn how to make two desires roughly equal, then you can choose one or the other.
But in fact, this is just a gift from your unbounded self to your bounded self, that few people ever learn.
If you can learn this ‘trick’, that’s because it was a part of the will of the ONE being, but still, it feels like a real blessing, and it is, this is called active co-creation. Few ever learn it. It’s like having your cake and eating it too.
Kevin Cann
Pubic Domain
9/4/2025