https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydor_2TaoMg

I was randomly recommended this on YouTube, and it's super interesting

Never done LSD before but y'know

I enjoy LSD

They allowed absynthe during the Bush Administration, but it's not the kind that works.

I can't believe I missed a conversation about LSD.

There are some leading questions in that video.

Let's talk about biological determinism and how it leaves no room for free will.

I don’t like that

Why?

That’s scary shit

Why is it scary??

Because it suggests I have no control

And that “I” may not actually exist

I think we may be redefining the term "free will"

Not gonna be available for the next few days tho

> Let's talk about biological determinism and how it leaves no room for free will.
@m.miller
That kind of thought process could lead to race realism. I've learned it is a taboo thing to discuss.

> @m.miller
> That kind of thought process could lead to race realism. I've learned it is a taboo thing to discuss.
@tom there are no taboo topics in the war if ideas.

Isn't biological determinism theoretical? Is there any evidence for it?

More evidence for it than free will

example?

https://www.nature.com/news/2008/080411/full/news.2008.751.html

That

Also the law of cause and effect

fMRIS show the impulses in our brains a full ten seconds before we are aware if having made a choice.

Every decision you make must be an effect of something else. It cannot be spontaneously generated. So it’d be foolhardy to assume that our decisions are anything other than a culmination of variables filtering through our brains