if conditions were completely different we'd be looking at a completely different result and feeling just as certain *that* was inevitable
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Replying to @schakalsynthetc @cyborg_nomade and
tbf if you're not going to embrace modal realism then you don't really have a principled way to dismiss the possibility of teleology, afaict
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How does literally every possible world being literally real save us from our fate in ours?
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Replying to @adornofthagn @cyborg_nomade and
bc fate is indexical and we can't be sure which of the many worlds we're actually in. maybe I finally get to say what I mean by "agency" now
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Replying to @schakalsynthetc @adornofthagn and
namely, agency in world w is just absence of modal necessity that a in w -> a' in w'. there's nothing metaphysically heavy about it.
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So, agency is just literally everything contingent? I don't think that makes any useful sense tbh
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Replying to @adornofthagn @cyborg_nomade and
agent is a thing that isn't fully, uniquely causally determined *within the scope of the explanation*.
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Replying to @schakalsynthetc @adornofthagn and
if we had complete information about every part of a state in a causal sequence and every law governing them we wouldn't see any agency
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Replying to @schakalsynthetc @adornofthagn and
but we don't, so we identify the unavoidable holes in a limited causal model and call them "agency". it works well enough to get on with.
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An agent is something that can sign a contract.
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Replying to @Outsideness @adornofthagn and
think you might've gotten a bit of moral personhood in yr agency there (they prob ought to be kept seperate) but I do like this definition
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