https://omarali.me/tags/philosophy-of-mind/Recent content in Philosophy of Mind on Omar NiorahHugoen-USWed, 21 Oct 2026 18:52:16 +0400https://omarali.me/posts/consciousness-is-a-wave-stop-looking-for-the-water-god/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:52:16 +0400https://omarali.me/posts/consciousness-is-a-wave-stop-looking-for-the-water-god/<p>In 2011, a friend and I spent more than ten hours trying to reconcile two apparently incompatible ideas: <strong>free will</strong> and <strong>an all-knowing God</strong>.</p> <p>I was a believing Muslim at the time. That mattered. I wasn&rsquo;t approaching the question with the freedom to discard either premise. God was omniscient. Humans had free will. Both had to be true.</p> <p>The problem was figuring out <em>how</em>.</p> <blockquote> <p>If God already knows what I&rsquo;m going to do tomorrow, can I genuinely choose to do something else?</p>