the trick to success in the philosophy of consciousness cottage industry is to spend so much time talking about the implications of your model that everybody forgets that your model isn't a model of consciousness and has no explanatory power for the phenomenon of consciousness
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Replying to @chaosprime
The lack of anything even close to a satisfactory explanation of consciousness is one.of.the few big questions that really troubles me.
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That the best answer we have may well be that free will is an illusion is something I really struggle to align with experience but I can't deny it either.
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free will is definitely an illusion but that doesn't tell us jack about why there's something there to perceive the illusion
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I strongly disagree with your definitely there. We have far too little understanding that make such bold claims. But I agree that either way on that question, the question of who or what we are as an observer is itself a maddening question.
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aside from how the perception of consciously making decisions has been well shown by neuroimaging to be illusory, the actual decision happening way before the perception of a decision to be made occurs, free will can't even be formed into a usable concept
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either actions are caused, in which case we don't have free will, or they're uncaused, in which case we don't have free will
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it's an artifact of the concept of the soul, which even if it exists as an independent entity that informs our material bodies through making decisions independently of them, doesn't help a damn thing because *its* actions are either caused or uncaused
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Humans, as we are , cannot "Do". All is done through us by a greater scale of forces, set by Cosmic Law which use us like pawns. Will is never free. A price is incurred for all debts, and "Will" is expensive. But the conditions exist for us to attain will.
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