The only way free will can work is if the Many worlds therom of quantum mechanics is true, and each conscious derision results in a new universe. And quantum mechanics means that most of these decisions are being made by particles, with life forms being pretentious bundles.
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Replying to @PomoPsiOp
free will is fucking silly, either the universe is deterministic, which is nightmarish, or things happen for no reason, which is even more nightmarish
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Replying to @chaosprime
Ehh, it's only deterministic if there is a single timeline, and it's only nightmarish if you are bothered by the existence of possibilities balanced out by their counter possibilities.
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Replying to @PomoPsiOp @chaosprime
The nightmare comes from moralizing. Anything being possible should be a good thing, but people are too bothered by the idea that maybe half of that anything is going to be things you hate.
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Replying to @PomoPsiOp @chaosprime
Somewhere out there in configuration space there is a version of you who is the immortal god king of the universe and everyone loves you. In another version of the universe you are a meat slave in a factory farm. We get to decide which one to identify more with.
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Replying to @djinnius @PomoPsiOp
well, the Wikipedia article is confusing. the intro summarizes what sounds like a reduction to absurdity of the concept of free will, demonstrating that if it exists, then there must be elementary particles that have it
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but either i missed the point completely or everybody described in the Reception section did
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