Sartre and Stoicism; Fate and Determinism

 Some might say that the quantum field humans are embedded in, like everything else that exists, determines human actions. Stoics might argue about relative freedom and absolute freedom. Does one would need to be God to be absolutely free? Would God then be free if He had existed from eternity; an unmoved mover, or would He be predetermined to be who He is? I believe stoics might modernize their way of regarding the effect of auxiliary and proximate causes in this fashion- I wonder if Sartre's term 'ossified praxis' that he gave to things like highway signs could be applied generally to semiotic challenges to freedom to exist? A stop sign of course means different things to human powered vehicles like bikes and machine carried people in cars and trucks. A bicyclist must put physical effort in deciding to comply with signs that are primarily made for motor vehicles when none are present. It is comparable to the non-sign for jaywalking on an empty highway instead of walking a mile to find a crosswalk. With a profusion of signs of ossified praxis and aged object in existence an individual must be free to choose which ones he wants to interact with in some way. Sartre also wrote that one always has the ability to just say no to whatever is being demanded of them in communication. Even so, one has the issue of cause and effect such as Hume descried and the paradigm of behaviorism such as BF Skinner developed for human organisms. An individual has certain select degrees of motion- does a fish have freedom not to breathe water? Is it fated to breath water (if it is blessed) and therefor not free because it has some choices it can make in regard to directions to choose to swim? Do humans need freedom in every possible dimension to be free or just a few, or even one or two?

I wonder if causes can be differentiated from the complete complex of compresence; the field in which all things exist in the present, and if the Earth that has a cause, and the sun that warms it in addition to radiological elements in the core, and all things that exist now can easily be categorized into simple causes of a linear sort, or even of a nexus that determine human actions. Causes, being and time, space-time, the Higgs Field and deterministic massless quanta given a third dimension in virtue of being slow and entangled in the Higgs field so they have apparent mass do seem to have a significant element of recognition from sentient minds, and some things like causes seem to exist within the mind; like language, rather than externally in the world.

Responsibility and freedom for choices would in a sense appear to depend on the independence of thought in a Cartesian Meditations sort of way that seems implicit in self-aware reasoning that occurs in a contiguous field of quantum entanglement given the particular conditions humans in societies find themselves in as peers. It seems a dead reckoning and practical criterion for judgment with laws and other formal regulatory ossifications made to serve social convenience rather than to oppress.