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date posted: Feb 19, 2007 7:01 PM

this has been nagging at me for a while

I am about to get a lot more technical than I should, but this question has gnawed at me for a while. I always hear about the Will of the Force. We are also told that the Force is an energy field created by living things and is communicated to individuals by midichlorians (thank you Qui-Gonn). However, the existance of a Will implies sentience, which should be quite impossible for an energy field. The best theory I've come up with (this is only a theory and by all means, I am willing to be disproved) is that the midichlorians are the ones with the sentience and that is communicated via a sort of hive mind, hence the "field". This is probably how the Force is manipulated as well.

I know that I'm going to get a few comments telling me to stop over thinking it but there you have it.

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Murray1134
That's just my opinion, I could be wrong

date Posted: Feb 19, 2007 8:01 PM

I've always believed that the Force does have a will of it's own. In many cases, I'd say that "Force" and "God" could be interchangeable, if you are of the Judeo-Christian belief. I'm not sure if the Force has a sentience, but it does have a will, although it is very passive in it's exercising of that, and that it is through the midichlorians that the will of the Force is passed on.

Sarlacc-Pitt
Slowly Digested Over A Thousand Blogs

date Posted: Feb 19, 2007 9:49 PM

Oh, the good old days when the Force was simple...so long gone....because of the PT. When Ben says in 4, that the Force is "created by all living things...", I think that if there are negative things going on in the galaxy, to living things, esp. after ep.3, that it pulls strength away from the Force. So I then think that the "will" of the Force is determined by living things, giving it power, and the midichlorians are sorta like the "circuits" that deliver the juice to the Force-sensitive. Maybe that's why the JC couldn't "see" that well in 3, because of the war going on, and everyone's negative reactions toward it.

	Granny-Wan I Am NOT an Old Fossil!
date Posted: Feb 19, 2007 10:37 PM In one of the novels, and I'm sorry I don't remember which one, Obi-Wan compares "The will of the Force" to the "Will of a river to run downhill" Meaning that they used that to describe things about the Force that they didn't understand. The GFFA has no gofs, and those who try to make the Force sound like god are trying to put our culture into the GFFA .

	jedi_iain From A Certain Point Of View
date Posted: Feb 19, 2007 11:24 PM I've never really liked the idea of the Force having a will because, as you say, it implies sentience. I've thought about it myself, and my best theory is that, through the Force, the sub-concious minds of Jedi and Force-sensitives are connected and that this is where this "will" comes from, not the Force itself, but from other Jedi.

	Darth_Hiram A Journey into The Force
date Posted: Feb 20, 2007 3:21 AM I'm of the "old school" in which I believe the Force is an energy field, controlling the actions and emotions of all living things, whether they know it or not. Some are supernaturally gifted to understand it better, and thus manipulate it into doing things as they will it. Definitely, though, the PT threw a wrench into a lot of thinking about the Force!

	slow Slow's Rebel Ramblings
date Posted: Feb 20, 2007 4:59 AM Yes, the Force is an energy that can be tapped into, not spread by microscopic beings. I've never looked at it as will, since it was the Journal of the Whills. But I agree with the above comment about it being like the will of a river flowing. You can be on the river but in the end, the river is the controlling factor.

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