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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This tautologically negates the concept of freewill. It denies that we can be an agent of cause.
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So it presents the idea that events are caused by outside forces, meaning we have no free will. Uncause and random so no free will, but doesn't present the idea that we are agents of cause with free will. It sounds nice but negates a possibility.
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what possibility? what can "free will" possibly mean that isn't self-negating and incoherent?
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Again, we come back to "I think therefore I am". I just can't get past that as an axiom in understanding our existence and no other explanation seems to come close to anything satisfactory. The concept that I think and feel and "decide" but that it's all illusionary...
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