At some point, perhaps, somewhere, some-when before time, the primal singularity acted out, perhaps speculating on an eventual battle between determinism (the concept that everything will be determined in the first instant of existence and all that follows will involve mere predictable reaction), and volition (the concept that choice will prove a reality that will impact consequences).  Perhaps that primal singularity wondered if choice would be an option.  Perhaps, the primal singularity speculated on the relevance of right versus wrong.

Perhaps it engaged in the following soliloquy:

“It may be that volition will be an attribute isolated only to biological entities broadly defined, starting with the tiniest and most primordial microorganisms.  Perhaps it will involve an experiment challenging otherwise predictable determinism, a sort of experimental determinist deviation which may set determinism somewhat askew, creating a tension between that phenomenon and its former perfection, where determinism will seek to erase the consequences of volition in the long term, while volition will mess with determinism in the short”.

In that sense, all our human idiocies would eventually come to naught, right versus wrong an irrelevancy, a mere artificial construct, and life will prove but a transitory anomaly, a sort of practical joke on the multiverse.  Unless, of course, life unexpectedly survives and in some volitional form or other, prevails, at least until entropy has the final word.

Or, perhaps not.

Perhaps the foregoing are only the rantings of an anarchic empirical philosopher.
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© Guillermo Calvo Mahé; Manizales, 2023; all rights reserved.  Please feel free to share with appropriate attribution.

Guillermo (“Bill”) Calvo Mahé (a sometime poet) is a writer, political commentator and academic currently residing in the Republic of Colombia (although he has primarily lived in the United States of America of which he is also a citizen).  Until 2017 he chaired the political science, government and international relations programs at the Universidad Autónoma de Manizales.  He is currently the publisher of the Inannite Review, available at Substack.com, a commentator on Radio Guasca FM, and an occasional contributor to the regional magazine, el Observador.  He has academic degrees in political science (the Citadel), law (St. John’s University), international legal studies (New York University) and translation and linguistic studies (the University of Florida’s Center for Latin American Studies).  However, he is also fascinated by mythology, religion, physics, astronomy and mathematics, especially with matters related to quanta and cosmogony.  He can be contacted at guillermo.calvo.mahe@gmail.com and much of his writing is available through his blog at https://guillermocalvo.com/.