>>11189684Consciousness is a process of experiential evolution; we perceive and interact with the world entirely using evolutionary architecture. The elements of variation -> selection -> reproduction are mirrored by question -> choice -> action. The flexibility of human language allows for this process to modify itself using its own elements; this activity is metacognition or "learning how to learn."
What is present in our immediate perception of change is presently questionable; all sense-data (including sensing of one's own ideas) is the result of an active request for information or query. The process of choice is that of satisfying a query according to criterion generated by meta-queries that ask what the satisfying criterion of the base query are.
This evolutionary dynamic is emergent from the nature of change itself, which finds its mathematical expression in calculus (the mathematical study of change) as integration and differentiation as inverse operations of the same process. This also corresponds to two fundamental reference frames of change-perception: instantaneous and cumulative.
Questionability involves sensitivity to near-present change; the "re-discovery" of the world as a new event of experience, and so is the activity of conscious differentiation. Choice involves causal efficacy and cumulative change over time (understanding) and different events to create a determined action, and is the process of integration. Every discovery is in the sense the un-doing of an understanding, and every understanding is an un-doing of a discovery that is brought into comprehensibility.
What follows from this is that "free will" has little to do with choice. Free will is better described as self-creativity and is one's ability to question themselves and their world so as to expand their field of potentiality. It is not found in any particular choice, but one's ability to grow, change, and learn over time.
