On free will [part 1]

Here is a nice thought experiment:
Imagine this person calle Joe. One day Joe makes a mistake that has grave consequences, let's say he blows up the Earth. Joe, who apparently was not on Earth when this happened, obviously did regret it very much, but what could he do? Well, as luck would have it, on the very same day he found a completely functioning time-machine! Now he could just go back in time and not do the mistake that destroyed Earth!
Well, as it turns out it is not that simple. For this is not the kind of time-machine that send things through time; it merely restores everything, including Joe, to the state it was one day ago. It restores the world to how it was before Joe blew up the world without introducing any changes.
Now, imagine looking at time through the eyes of a being that stands outside of time, like God or Santa Clause. Such a being would observe exactly one out of two things:

A. Either the day will play out exactly the way it did before with no alteration, meaning he did the mistake, blew up the Earth and restored time once again to have the whole thing play out again, and the loop would continue eternally.
B. The day would play out differently, if only a little, and even if Joe failed to prevent the mistake at one point, each time will be a little different, and the loop will continue only until he either won't make that mistake and saves the Earth, or he screws up so bad that he kill himself as well.

Now, my question is this; in which of these cases does free will exist?
Not in A, obviously. In the case of A, he was always going to blow up Earth. It was an inevitability, the result of the natural progression of the universe. It would be impossible for him not to make the mistake! How can you blame him if he himself could not help it?
So B then? Well, I'd have to say no, because every time he resets time there is a chance he will blow up the Earth, so whether or not he ends up in that universe is completely up to luck. Is it really fair if God throws dice and says "Oh, I'm sorry. It looks like you will commit a double murder today, by your own free will"? Of course it isn't!

So if these events play out, free will does not exist? Is it safe to say that free will never existed in a world where such events are possible? Is it possible then that free will is an illusion in the world we live in now?

What I would like to take from this is that what we call free will seems to be contradictory in nature, but I am not quite sure what the contradiction is.

Of course, I really don't think it is quite this simple, but I will adress those issues in the next post.

TO BE CONTINUED!

Engine done!

Phew! I finally finished the engine for my game. Now you can move, talk with people and use inventory on stuff. That's all there is to it really, but hopefully I will be able to make it in a so compelling way you will have no choice to like it.

But then I will need to decide what the content should be. Perhaps some of my friends will be able to offer a brainstorming session.

It also occurred to me that this game doesn't have a name.  Then I  shall name it Donny for now. I love it so much that I want to give it a people name <3

As promised...

Alright, here we go...

As promised, some pictures for a game. It takes place in an office and is loosely based on a game by one of my friends. It really was a concept I liked, but he never did agree to make the changes I proposed to graphics, coding and dialogue, so I started making another game with a similar design.
Essentially you play an office-worker; and must progress through exploration, dialogue and problem-solving.
The first morning of work after a quite pecculiar weekend. Every so often, someone Liam doesn't know, has been trying to contact him. But when he picks up the phone, all he can hear is white noise. Once he arrive at the office he once again gets the call, but this time he hears a voice...

I really have only made one level. I just finished working on the inventory-system, but am yet to integrate it into the actual gameplay. ´So why release anything when I have barely made anything? Am I making people excited ( or at least I hope you are excited ) when it is not even sure I will finish it? I for one would like to look at this as a sort of commitment; now that I've said I am woking on something and people are going to look forward to it ( at least some people are actually viewing this blog I hope ), I am going to have to put a little effort into it or I will have to answer to... whoever choose to read what I write.
Essentially this is the game I failed to make for Ludum Dare, with the theme "Connected Worlds". I am still set on completing it though, especially since I promised myself to finish a game this year. Hopefully I will be able to complete this game before New Year's Eve, and if not... I will try to finish it even still.
The fact I have not successfully made a game in an embarrasingly long time will not get in the way!

More brain-teasers

Sorry about the blog going too slow now. I can tell that I have been working on a new game, of which screenshots shall be released in due time. Perhaps even later I shall release the game itself. As for now;

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Yet another brain-teaser! This one should be a bit more obvious; a fully-fledged product of boredom. Tell me if you want some more of these and I will upload some older ones as well.

To tease a brain...

Fancy yourself an intelligent person?
Try this wonderful teaser of brains, in order to test your capacity:

112, 122, 312, 232, ??, 122, 323, 342, ??, 344

Be warned, it's quite a difficult one I think.