Music and Free Will

As a practical matter, whether or not there is such a thing as free will, and whether or not one personally believes in free will, one must live one’s life as if he or she does have free will. There is no alternative.  That is the way the rules of existence are structured.  What the modern advaitists, Balsekar and Liquorman point out is that if you intellectually and viscerally are convinced there is no such thing as free will you will be released from the pain of suffering from a sense of sin or guilt.  Such a person will be far less judgmental of others. Harris makes the same point.My sense is that Mozart personified free will the older he got, and Beethoven perfected the model by his 29th year ( when he started to grow deaf) More on free will and music in future blogs