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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

what the government doesn't want you to know is that free will is real, some people have more of it than others, and cultivating it is a fundamentally dangerous practice

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· Sep 20, 2021

The universe is deterministic. There is no free will. Have empathy for everyone.

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

i suppose after you claim there’s no free will and then issue a command like “have empathy for everyone” the idea is that some people will deterministically comply and others won’t? determinism is so weird

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

one fun idea i came across recently is that a big reason why free will has historically been such a big deal is that if it doesn’t exist then the concept of sin becomes incoherent idk how true this is but food for thought

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

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what the government *really* doesn’t want you to know is that the people with the most free will are the jews

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

· Jul 28, 2020

yesterday i learned that there's a whole millennia-long debate about astrology in judaism and one of the positions is "astrology is true for everyone except jews because god gives jews more free will" and this is my new headcanon now en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_vi

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

anyway as an alternative to getting philosophically confused about free will vs. determinism i suggest you experiment with switching between moving your fingers “on purpose” and letting them move “however they want to” to get phenomenologically confused instead

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李安科 Tony - ɱ

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Incoherent how? Calvinists assert predestination, for example.

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if free will does not exist, punishments and rewards start to look like silly concepts.

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yes, it would seem applicable to the more general case of punishment-reward systems. all our systems are like that or infused by that ofc. anyway, does then this not point precisely in the opposite direction, ie that gov’s would want you to know free will *is* real?

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Aleksi Liimatainen

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Free will as uncaused causes vs free will as [insert articulation here]. It's a thing but we don't have a well-formed shared conceptualization to point to.

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Oh this is absolutely the case for my parent's religion. One of my first big arguments with my dad was when I played devil's advocate for determinism This was also the start of my break with Ancap thought. Many libertarian-leaning people need free will to justify suffering

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yeah theres a lot of debate about this when studying the bible, instances of god hardening kings hearts or threatening the jews by holding a mountain over their heads and stuff, my answer back then was that free will exists only on certain levels of soul consciousness lol

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