谈到自由意志，不用说，那我们先得搞清楚什么是自由意志。老规矩，去维基百科的知识宝库里面先探个究竟。

Free will is the ability to choose between different possible courses of action. It is closely linked to the concepts of responsibility, praise, guilt, sin, and other judgments which apply only to actions that are freely chosen. It is also connected with the concepts of advice, persuasion, deliberation, and prohibition. Traditionally, only actions that are freely willed are seen as deserving credit or blame. There are numerous different concerns about threats to the possibility of free will, varying by how exactly it is conceived, which is a matter of some debate.

自由意志指的是在各种不同的方案中，进行选择并行动的能力。所以自由意志，并不是字面上中文的自由意志，更像是选择和决策问题，所以还是要看第一手资料才行。

Some conceive free will to be the capacity to make choices in which the outcome has not been determined by past events. Determinism suggests that only one course of events is possible, which is inconsistent with the existence of such free will. This problem has been identified in ancient Greek philosophy,[1] and remains a major focus of philosophical debate. This view that conceives free will to be incompatible with determinism is called incompatibilismD, and encompasses both metaphysical libertarianism, the claim that determinism is false and thus free will is at least possible, and hard determinism, the claim that determinism is true and thus free will is not possible. It also encompasses hard incompatibilism, which holds not only determinism but also its negation to be incompatible with free will, and thus free will to be impossible whatever the case may be regarding determinism.

有些人认为自由意志是做出选择的能力，并且最终的结果和过去是无关的。决定论是说只有一个事件是可行的，这与自由意志的存在是不一致的。

无论是意志也好还是选择也好，无非是对于已有的认识（无论是别人的还是自己的），进行肯定或者否定。所以很难想出非自己思维境界的观点。所以如何提高自己的思维才是重中之重。

每天来读一段庄子的典籍吧，这才是真正和庄子进行对话吧。

北冥有鱼，其名为鲲。鲲之大，不知其几千里也；化而为鸟，其名为鹏。鹏之背，不知其几千里也；怒而飞，其翼若垂天之云。是鸟也，海运则将徙于南冥。南冥者，天池也。

南方和北方并不是地理位置的南和北，而指的是旧有环境和新的环境（如果是南北，那应该季节性的回到北方，毕竟北方才是家吧）。当海运之时，也就是旧环境不太适合生存了，所以要变为大鹏，展翅高飞。鲲鹏比喻的是人要随机应变，不能过于保守。穷则变，变则通。但这里有个认知问题，为什么鱼能变成大鹏，这其实说的是我们在游泳的时候，也要努力学会飞。为什么肖申克的救赎中，主角最终能够获得自由，是相比其他的人（鲲）而言，他具有别人没有的能力（展翅高飞）。又让我想起庄子说的，无用之用，方为大用。

希望大家在空闲之时，多修炼自己的飞翔能力吧，必然会在若干年后有意外的惊喜。