All presumably going back to those ubiquitous laws of matter.
The mystery here [as I see it] has always revolved around how philosophers and scientists explain the part where lifeless/mindless matter evolved over billions of years into mindful living matter actually able to become cognizant of itself as mindful matter.
For most, of course, questions of this sort are punted to the ecclesiastics who then punt it on to one or another God. Or set of Gods.
Mind is a function of the brain [ the only function of the brain ] And minds are responsible for personality which is fundamentally I
The I is what makes everyone absolutely individual and unique as no two human beings are identical [ not even monozygotic ones ]
Okay, so fit this relationship into an optimal understanding of what is in fact true given the conflicting assumptions embedded in the centuries old arguments between the hard determinists, the free-will advocates and the so-called compatibilists.
As that relates specifically to a particular choice that you have made. Today for example.
The need for explanations about physical reality is what drives human curiosity but reality itself has precisely zero interest in this
Another example of what I construe to be an assertion…a belief you have in your head that [in my estimation] you have yet to demonstrate why all rational men and women are obligated to believe it in turn.
And what if the ultimate reality goes back to God? He might have an interest in all this.
And so some things are currently unknown [ either in part or in whole ] but will be known in the future while other things will always be unknown
One of the things that is not fully currently known is the human mind but whether it will always be so is only something that can be known in time
True.
But: Not much this doesn’t cover, right?
In other words, in time we will know some things and not know other things. Not unlike our predicament today. Or the predicament of all our ancestors in turn.
But the question remains: autonomously or not?