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 @0Kultra @PomoPsiOp
Der Gedanke an den Wärmetod ist ein starkes Trostmittel.
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free will isn't silly, it's popular definitions of it that are askew. At the end of the day free will is, and can only be, acting in accordance with your own nature. The only alternative is dice-throwing. So there's no contradiction between free will and determinism.
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At the end of the day free will has to mean something, and randomness isn't the answer. We are all of us limited and predictable even if we don't live in a deterministic reality, because we make decisions on the basis of the information available to us...
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I don't think it does. Consider. 1) I choose to eat cake 2) I am forced to eat cake at gunpoint In case 1 I exercise free will, in 2 I don't. No magic required.
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that's really better handled as an agency vs. coercion conversation, "free will" is just muddling it; by the actual usage of the term, you are still free willed in option 2, your free will cannot actually be removed, only your options can be constrained
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