Message from @nemurin
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But why make decisions according to utility at all?
I'll put it another way: Why operate by beliefs as opposed to desires and temperaments? It can't be reduced to a belief that operating by beliefs is better since that would be begging the question. It can't be reduced to either of the other two either because then we would be operating by desires or temperaments and the same circular logic would occur (desiring to operate by desire & feeling like operating by temperaments). None of these three fundamental causes can explain why I chose one over the other. What can?
Your gut animal faculties and genetics with only minor consideration to things like beliefs, desires and temperaments which are ultimately just structures of language in your head you've assigned various values. The freedom we have is ultimately only to construct an instruction manual for our instinctive stove-touching bodies to face the world and we don't comprehend the ultimate moment a decision is made . However I do think the mind in its sanctuary is free enough to tune and twist the language which is important to it, and thus defines behavior outside of the basic level.
but overall the same animal body which ran from predators and associated smells and sounds with danger or gives you social warnings is what drives you moment to moment
Can we take some time to appreciate
That
Someone made a Dodo-Tyrannosaurus Rex hybrid
😳
*bap*
Those different values we interpret as beliefs, desires, and temperaments are still not directly comparable, though. Animalistic instincts and genetics often determine what our temperaments are in various circumstances, but they don't determine why we weigh beliefs or desires as more valuable than our temperaments or why people change their paradigms of thought.
Well that is exactly what I was implying, that in constructing or changing paradigms of thought is the only place where will can be said to exist but it is a slow process and you don't really make decisions you build belief stuctures so when you come across a decision you frame it in your structure and then follow the value structure you built
And so far as we have will, it is only over the course of long days of introspection to change the fundamental methods by which our careening chemical clockwork reacts to the world
Yes, exactly
for example if you were to come across a time sensitive problem that required agonizing, your decision would ultimately be predictable based off your recent thought lest you decide to overturn everything at that given moment which would likely take too long and so we can only set up rules to be followed later unless time is no factor
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People operate by certain paradigms that can change gradually over time, yes
>no pantheism role >no anprim role
oofed
🤡
based uncle ted's new technology political dichotomy isn't yet popular
it would probably range something like transhumanist - technocrat x luddite - primitivist
I want government mandated feet pics
government mandated lesbianism for girls under 18
Nice
how could any primitivist be online?
well i would slot more into a luddite territory, but theoretically a primitivist could be online trying to gather the faculties or people to legally live a primitive lifestyle, albiet it being extremely expensive and difficult these days
Guys
I cant sleep
I fucking hate insomnia
Who tf invented this stupid flu
read a history book of an era you hate
take 2 zytecs then masturbate. You'll be sleepy by then
I already whacked off
Listen to boring music
Those kids didnt help me enough
huh
Like the amish?