oh, i have no investment in that position and don't think it's the case, but Conway here doesn't refute it either, in the whole thing free will is just a black box hypothetical causal phenomenon whose provenance isn't raised as a question
the vanishing of the ego under examination that Dan was talking about is more like noticing that what you're used to as thinking of the boundaries of You vs. Not You are only relatively real, and you're as much like a waveform blip in a continuous substance as you are entity-like
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Empirically, when you are cut, I don't feel the bleeding.
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there are a lot more ways to be affected by something than nerve signaling
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The actual sensation is me. Other things are not me. I feel the sensations, and I control some related things. If there is no ego to be affected, then actually there's no way to be affected at all.
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