people writing about consciousness be like, "first i will redefine the term 'consciousness' as something i can make empirical statements about, then see how just how long i can talk before people notice i'm not talking about what they came here to find out about"
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I hadn't been aware of the theorem, so thanks for the pointer. Though yeah. Personally I'm predetermined to be unable to really disbelieve in free will, so there's no point in anyone trying to convince me otherwise. (Not that they have any choice whether to do so.)
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it's not even a coherent concept, which makes it all the more weird that we all know what it is but yeah it's an incredibly bad, destructive idea to try to operationalize any implications of its nonexistence so may as well just run with it
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