I can't believe people still believe in free will and agency. I'm not aware of anything in biology or physics that suggests we have some magic spark in a mystical plane that gives us "free will". We just do stuff in response to stimulus. I would have thought this debate would die when neurologists started opening up people's brains and inducing massive personality shifts and various cognitive aberrations by poking people's brain meat with electrodes. It's just a false dichotomy left over from weird medieval religious nonsense.

God they're talking about choosing to act Killllll meeeeeee

I'm reading the intro to Infinite Thought btws feel free to check in here because I will be cataloging my distress relating to French people who spend too much time thinking and not enough time practicing with swords.

  • space_comrade [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Reminder that a physicalist approach to the hard problem of consciousness is inherently nonsensical and contradictory. Moreover it's entirely undialectical and Engels would call you a dumb dumb for believing it.

    I will explain if somebody wants me to but only once, I've had this discussion many times here and it never amounted to much.