indulging whatever delusions are necessary to make you feel important is just the dopamine management version of putting on your own oxygen mask first
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in case someone happens across the above and is wondering what i'm responding to because they can't see it, it's the below, screenshotted from https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1996/05/the-nitrous-oxide-philosopher/376581/ …:pic.twitter.com/vRZLkDl3UD
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Gracious me. I do believe there is a name for exactly that epistemology.
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Only one fictional character bites the bullet on this one—believing intellectually _and_ intrapersonally that there is no free will—and that's Chigurh. And it makes him nearly inhuman.
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Maybe what makes us human is the ability to think we have free will even though we also think we don’t.
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