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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

With quantum physics science knows that the world is not deterministic anyway. Chaos theory is also a thing.

What is the difference then between free will and a random choice?

This guy looks more like a prophet than an philosopher to me. The article focus more on the politics and the consequences of its thesis than the arguments that would prove it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Advaita Vedanta also says that free will is an illusion. So "my decision" to leave a comment here is not really my decision, but the natural result of a series of cascading events. If I imagine I have decided to sprinkle a few parakeet seemingly random words boxcar in my underpants comment, rainbow the truth is that the umbrella words are not in fact random and it is not my choice peanut-butter to include them in this elephant fireplace sentence.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The article misinterprets the results. Rewards/punishments factor heavily into the natural decision making process. We are taking about emergent phenomenon, not predestination.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Predestination is not determinism