Message from @Jacob
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@The Eternal Anglo That's true.
A funny meme, but it is 100% accurate.
“Things don’t have identity until we observe them... I can’t ever observe this, never. I have no empiracle tests to prove this, because the moment I test, the thing has identity, but I know it doesn’t until I test.”
You can’t even call it a “theory.” That is grossly stretching the word.
Corrupting physics/metaphysics is the first step in corrupting our culture and our people. Once you deny identity and causality, you get away with anything.
He looks like a nightmare
okay here's the thing
how can free will exist
if genes affect behavior?
or you can affect behavior by messing with part of the brain?
if you jam a rod into my head at the right spot, you could probably make me a liberal
Oh boy...
this has happened to people in the past
do I really have free will if I can turn liberal by being stabbed the right way?
That’s like saying free will can’t exist because we can’t fly
Physical reality inhibits my free will. No.
No, because you can try to fly all you want. If I have the right genes or a rod in the right part of my head, I will cease to even want to not be liberal.
This is a lifeboat scenario that isn’t relevant. You don’t make philosophical conclusions by exceptions. You wouldn’t say, for example, humans have 6 toes because some humans have 6 toes.
An abnormally functioning brain is not an argument against normally functioning ones
Let's say I'm super based and redpilled identitarian right until the second I get stabbed. Now I'm suddenly liberal vegan satanist. Doesn't that imply at least some parts of the brain are involved in determinism?
It's not just malfunctioning though
Genes influence behavior in normal people, too
These are preconditions upon which will is built. You’re, perhaps accidentally, separating mind and body
I read an article that said a certain type of magnet could be used to make someone less religious/more accepting of refugees
@Alexander Pechorin If there's preconditions, is the will entirely free?
I think I’ll keep my threat-processing ability, thanks
broke: they’re taking away your guns
woke: they’re taking away your brain
@Isabella Locke-MT That's a good example of what I'm talking about. If the parts of the brain can be modified to do something else, then clearly they were already determined to do something.
Of course, objective constraints of reality are never a denial of your freedom
No. Impulses and tendencies are not the same thing as will
What, then, is determinism? If the objective constraints are within your brain itself, is that not at least some form of determinism?
No. Determinism and free will have very little to do with emotions or tendencies.
Let’s define free will: “the ability to act at one's own discretion.”
That you might have an existing tendency towards one particular view or feeling does not deny your ability to act against it
Only an abnormally functioning, damaged brain would do that
Isn't that tendency, at least to since extent, determined, though? There's a distinction between choosing to react a certain way to stimuli that may or may not be present, and "stimuli" being present in the brain itself, which determine how one reacts to outside stimuli.
Your tendency to be hungry when you don’t eat is determined too. That is not, philosophically speaking, related to free will at all
Only the choice to eat or not eat
A better comparison would be the tendency to actually act on hunger, which would be a form or determinism. How can we say that our will is entirely free if the mechanism used to determine that will is itself held captive by certain tendencies?