If you say so. But I suspect you’re redefining the term to suit your purposes. Which is fine, and expected; that /is/ a form of persuasion after all, to control the rhetoric on your own terms. I disagree. To say a man is “persuaded” to change his behavior is disingenuous here.
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Replying to @theCTwelve @ScottAdamsSays
Is that true? Sure. In the same way I persuade a robber to leave with my gun. That’s a linguistic sleight of hand. It works, mostly. But it’s also annoying. And it stinks of “everything is a nail, and I am the hammer of god.”
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Replying to @theCTwelve
Everything persuades, whether intent is there or not. You might be hung up on intent.
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Replying to @ScottAdamsSays
Could be! I think that’s over-stretching the term to fit a particular paradigm, though. Of course, all definitions are permitted the definer, so you so you. I merely disagree with the premise. Persuasion I do feel requires some intent. Otherwise it’s just…observation, really.
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It's a filter. The POINT of a filter is that it is not the one true view of reality, just one window. And it is either predictive or not, which is the test of the filter.
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Sure! Fair enough. I always liked you because you’re clearly smarter than the average bear. And if one true filter works for you, awesome! I certainly won’t argue with your success. I simply prefer a world where people have some agency. And for my purposes, that works just fine.
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Free will is an illusion, but if a filter that says otherwise makes you happy and does a good job of predicting, I'm all for you using it.
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Replying to @ScottAdamsSays @theCTwelve
Outside the machine and even within the machine there can be free will. Saying there is no free will makes you happy.
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Either the Universe is genuinely deterministic, in which case free will is a delusion; or it isn't, which is a possibility admitted by current physics. We either live in a perfect simulacra of freedom, or we are in fact free, and there's no way to truly know. So, act accordingly.
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In neither case is there free will. But in one case cause and effect does not apply.
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