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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Replying to @mikeschiffer
oh my fucking god yes why do people think that a (reasonably interesting) theorem where if people have free will, it's implied that elementary particles have free will, proves that people have free will??? WHY
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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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Replying to @mikeschiffer
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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Replying to @chaosprime @mikeschiffer
Oh but it would be so beautiful if we destroyed ourselves because we know we have no choice but to destroy ourselves. It makes humankind into a poem.
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honestly we seem more than tragic enough to me either way
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Replying to @chaosprime @mikeschiffer
And there'd be nobody left to appreciate it anyway.
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