The angle I've been coming from too. We can ofc segue into a philosophy of mind debate about the 'realness of agency', but its optional.
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Replying to @mfckr_ @schakalsynthetc and
I don't think agency is irreal in any sense. I just think it's locus is not the human mind.
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @mfckr_ and
I get the usefulness of a theory of mind that ascribes responsibilities to individuals...
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @mfckr_ and
...but to expect that it's validity extend beyond what it has evolved to do into large scale processes humans are part of is at least naïve
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @mfckr_ and
humans are part of a self-producing, intensifying culture-nature circuit that is, by the very definition, undetermined.
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @mfckr_ and
to displace the agency from this circuit into any of its parts is to say that such part can determine this whole circuit on its own.
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @schakalsynthetc and
I'm not suggesting that anyone's agency is determinant of the whole.
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Replying to @mfckr_ @cyborg_nomade and
that's exactly the complication people are tripping up on when they convince themselves personal agency must be irreal or trivial, I think
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Replying to @schakalsynthetc @mfckr_ and
it's an insidious hangover from enlightenment humanism's effort to secularize & naturalize the abrahamic god, really
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Replying to @schakalsynthetc @cyborg_nomade and
And yet they keep striving to reinvent said Abrahamic God in some non-supernatural rendition or another. Funny to watch, really.
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Given the incontinent demand for Talmudic bullshit from Baizuo BDSM freaks, the incentives have no doubt been hard to resist.
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