Message from @Jacob
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@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?
You aren’t “held captive” you do indeed still have a choice regardless of the urge. And as you’ve claimed, “we can modify our tendancies”
The very fact that a tendency might exist and we have potential and capacity to recognize it and to modify it or alleviate it is enough, though even if we couldn’t modify it, so long as we could act against it, free will exists.
By what mechanism are those tendencies modified, though? At what point is the predictive power of the presence of particular allele high enough that we can say its presence is deterministic? Does it have to be 100%? What if it's 95%? Can we really say that our will is entirely free if there is only a 5% chance of breaking with the effect of a certain allele? If the Monoamine Oxidase 2 Repeat allele causes a significantly increased likelihood of aggressive behavior, how high does that likelihood have to be for us to say that the allele at least partially determined behavior?
Keep in mind that the issue isn't so much that the allele acts as a form of stimulus, the issue is that this particular stimulus is present within the decision making capacity of the brain itself.
@Isabella Locke-MT. So basically magnetizing threat processing (a healthy, natural occurrence) out is acceptable in their minds, but shocking the gay (unnatural and unhealthy) out of someone wouldn't be... <:really:453005408064241674>
Yep. As long as it suits their needs, they don't care if they damage brains.
Substance abuse death at Google HQ in NYC? Say it ain't so....they're such high quality people.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/google-software-engineer-22-found-dead-at-new-york-headqaurters-report
So apparently it's really difficult to fire someone from a government job. Does this mean we could all get government jobs and be dox proof?
You’d have trouble advancing in the best case
Yeah they can’t really fire you for opinions but a dox would make life harder ofc
Government jobs have lots of diversity hires who would make up reasons to fire you, but legally you're more protected there
Whitepill of the day
Snopes says it's fake, so I believe it.
Dang
Yeah, no one starts a jumping with a headbutt. C'mon guys
I don't know anything about fighting so
A fight, yeah, but not a jumping
So, France today:
Man lost a hand
Young lady lost an eye
French police forces are disgusting
I was just looking at that
a hand and an eye??
yeah
a young looking guy got his hand like..blasted off
it did not look good
here's the video of the girl