i don't blame people for their attachment to the concept of free will, since their having said attachment was deterministic anyway
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Replying to @chaosprime
On our old discord server a user was once given the role titled "Believes in Free Will" and another role titled "Also Believes in Determinism" after a truly baffling conversation.2 replies 0 retweets 10 likes -
Replying to @sysid_ACE
i guess for some people not having their choices be *legibly* deterministic is good enough, and that's easy given sensitive dependence on initial conditions, so blessed are those ones
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Replying to @chaosprime
See, like, that'd be an angle, right!
The conversation was literally *about* that though, the whole "your brain has already chosen before you consciously decide to do the thing."
That was an example that was raised! And he no-selled it!1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes -
Replying to @sysid_ACE @chaosprime
that experiment as a defeater for free will never made any sense to me it's perfectly possible that free will is a process that takes 500 milliseconds or w/e, and you can detect early stages of that process via material means before the consciousness in question is aware of it
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Replying to @ded_ruckus @chaosprime
free will's realness is such old news to me that I haven't really thought about that much recently, but that's a good point
do you know what finding out your trans, otherkin and plural does to how much value and rigidity you place in things like identity and free will?1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes -
Replying to @sysid_ACE @ded_ruckus
yeah, the relevance of that thing is that free will as it's important to people involves needing their *consciousness* to be making the choices, if the experience of making choices is something that's being cooked up and fed to the consciousness this fucks 'em all up
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I'm not convinced there's a singular consciousness to be making choices but pretty sure choices are being made. I experience free will as something that requires strategy, internal consensus-building, and taking advantage of tipping points rather than something "I" "Do", though.
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