Believers in free will like to claim that their view of humans is warmer and more dignifying than that of cold, mechanistic determinists. But we’d probably treat people with more warmth and dignity if we accepted that they ultimately did not choose to be who they are.
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You can, yes. But there's no reason intrinsic to (un)free will that would lead you there. My value for sentience can be limited to my own sentience.
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Agreed, a deterministic universe is somewhat depressing and devoid of deeper value, if we are all ultimately automatons with no agency. Fortunately the Universe is stochastic, and we likely do have agency.
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Nor does rejecting FW mean rejecting the possibility of an immortal soul but most people seem to assume it does.
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I don't think lack of freewill equates to predetermined.
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Not to say it isn't..
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Except that suffering is nothing more than a set of electrical signals to a system that's simulating "awareness". Why would I care about a machine that's programmed to play an audio file of screaming when I sense damage to it's casing?...
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...this is the problem with pure mechanization. You can't do so and then cherry pick how the machination's autonomy and self are dismissed. Either you act as if it exists, or you don't.
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What do you mean by 'pre-determined'?
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