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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Replying to @schakalsynthetc @cyborg_nomade and
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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Replying to @schakalsynthetc @adornofthagn and
denying agency is like insisting that if you could look at your own eyeballs you'd know what color they are instead of going on best-guesses
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Replying to @schakalsynthetc @cyborg_nomade and
Just looked in a mirror, them bitches green
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Replying to @adornofthagn @cyborg_nomade and
are you sure? the mirror could have been engineered to deceive you. (hopefully you get the reference & thus know I'm not seriously asking)
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Replying to @schakalsynthetc @cyborg_nomade and
But... how can mirrors be real if your eyes aren't real?
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Any sufficiently advanced discussion of capitalism becomes Yogācāra. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogachara
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