“Change comes from within” is a bad heuristic for self-improvement. We evolved to adapt to environmental pressures, so if you wish to develop as a person, develop your surroundings into an environment that will require you to become who you wish to be.
The reason my argument appears nonsensical to you is that you are talking about an entirely different level of abstraction. I am talking only about ultimate causes, which would be external in a deterministic world as the chain of causality would precede the creation of the brain.
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No. I am talking about the exact same level of abstraction. Again. Read/listen to
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You and I agree that we are simply part of a causal chain that preceded our existence. All I’m saying is that if that prevents us from deliberate action to improve ourselves, it would also prevent us from deliberate action to affect our environment. It prevents neither.
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