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.

  • boffa [ey/em,e/em/eir]
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    3 years ago

    Then why would we be more conscious than a rockslide?

    I'm not qualified to argue philosophy but when I say that free will sounds as true to me as the alternative these are the arguments I'm talking about and the ones you'd have to be calling nonsensical.

    edit: "A 2020 survey found that 59% of philosophers accept compatibilism" so it looks like even trained philosophers find the arguments worthy in about equal amounts.

    • MarxGuns [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      I'm also not qualified to argue philosophy and I think our brains are kinda like a really complex rockslide. My analogy is that computing devices appear to be pretty complex and can be made more so but are just built up from simple machines combined and layered up to their complexity, both in hardware and software. I imagine our brain like that.