Does Omniscience Destroy Free Will? Or Are You Just Making Excuses?

Here’s a question that’ll mess with your head: If something, God, a superintelligent AI, whatever, knows exactly what you’re going to choose before you choose it, was it ever really your choice?

This isn’t just abstract philosophy. This is about your life right now. Because if you believe you have no real choice, you’ve already given up. And if you think every decision was scripted before you were born, why bother trying to change anything?

Let’s get into it.

Free Will: What Are We Actually Talking About?

Free will boils down to this: Can you make a choice that isn’t already locked in by your biology, your past, or the universe’s script?

Most people never question this. They wake up, go through the motions, blame their circumstances, and call it fate. “I had no choice.” Really? Or did you just not want to face the consequences of choosing differently?

Philosophy breaks it down like this:

• Libertarian free will: Your choices are genuinely yours. Nothing predetermined them.
• Compatibilism: You’re “free” if you’re doing what you want, even if what you want was caused by something else.
• Hard determinism: Free will is a fairy tale. You’re a meat robot running code written by evolution and trauma.

Now here’s where it gets interesting: What if someone already knows what you’re going to choose?

God Knows Everything. So What?

Let’s say you believe in an all-knowing God. He sees the future. He knows you’re about to screw up that relationship, waste another year in a job you hate, or finally wake up and change. If He already knows, was your decision ever yours?

Theologians have been wrestling with this for centuries. Boethius said God exists outside time. He doesn’t see your future choice, He sees all choices at once in an eternal “now.” So your choice is still free; He’s just watching.

Molina took another angle: God knows every possible choice you could make in every possible situation, and He created the world knowing what you’d freely choose. It’s like He set up the game knowing all the moves, but you’re still the one playing.

Here’s my take: If you’re using “God knows everything” as an excuse to not take responsibility, you’re hiding. Whether God knows or not, you still made the choice. And you’ll live with the consequences.

The real question isn’t whether God knows. It’s whether you’re willing to own your decisions or keep blaming the script.

Now Let’s Talk AI

Forget God for a second. What if we build a superintelligent AI that can predict your every move? It models your brain, your environment, your history, and it knows with 100% accuracy that you’ll buy that thing, date that person, quit that job.

Does that kill free will?

Laplace imagined a “demon” that could know every particle in the universe and predict everything. A super-AI could be that demon. It doesn’t just guess, it knows.

But here’s the thing: Even if the AI predicts your choice, you still made it. The prediction didn’t force you. You wanted what you wanted. You deliberated. You acted. The fact that someone saw it coming doesn’t erase the choice itself.

Unless you think it does. Then you’re back to being a victim of inevitability, and guess what? You’ll act like one.

Neuroscience complicates this. Studies show your brain starts a decision before you’re consciously aware of it. Does that mean “you” didn’t decide? Or does it mean your conscious self is catching up to what your subconscious already knew?

The Real Question Isn’t Philosophical. It’s Personal

Look, I’m not here to solve the free will debate. Philosophers have been arguing about this for 2,000 years and they’re not stopping anytime soon.

What matters is this: Do you act like you have free will?

Because if you don’t, you’ve already lost. You’ll blame your genes, your parents, your trauma, your circumstances, and you’ll stay stuck. Forever.

If you believe your choices matter. Even if they’re influenced by a million things you can’t control, you take responsibility. You stop waiting for permission. You stop pretending you’re helpless.

Free will might not be absolute. But it’s real enough for you to change your life.

I work with people every day who thought they were trapped, by their past, their beliefs, their conditioning. And the moment they stop hiding behind determinism and start choosing, everything shifts.

You don’t need perfect freedom. You need enough agency to take the next step. And you have that. Right now.

So What’s It Gonna Be?

Even if God knows. Even if an AI could predict this moment. Even if your brain fired neurons a millisecond before you consciously decided.

You’re still here. Reading this. And you’re about to choose what comes next.

Will you keep using “I had no choice” as your excuse? Or will you own the fact that you’ve been choosing all alongm you just didn’t want to admit it?

The script isn’t written until you write it.

Now go.

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