Comment on do you think freewill truly exists?

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• running_ragged@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I don’t think that defeats it at all, it just changes the direction of the conversation and is as deeply philosophical as the first. Some might say life goes on with or without free will so it doesn’t matter, other say that the a societal acceptance of the absence of free will removes the burden of guilt, and could reshape society in very profound ways, so of course it matters.

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  • cattywampas@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    There is value in asking the question and in the consideration itself. Even if we never find the answer, it’s good for our brains to think about these things. Knowledge, and the search for it, has value in itself. We don’t always need to do something with it.

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  • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    a societal acceptance of the absence of free will removes the burden of guilt

    Those cops, judges, lawyers, jail guards etc also don’t have free will, so while maybe the burden of guilt is gone, the legal repercussions still would exist all the same.

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• shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  it may not matter at all, but we’re here, somehow, made of sentient flesh, kept on a giant rock hurling through space, spinning around an enormous buring ball of fire. it’s all bizarre and none of us knows what is going on, so why not take some time out of the lives we live as statistical abnormalities, and just ponder on the whys and hows and whats of the things around us, and our own minds

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    A continous nuclear explosion even.

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• ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I guess, if they answer “No” or “Yeah your simple rebuttal has made me realize the problem of free will is nbd actually”.

  But if they say “Yes. It does matter.” Then suddenly it isn’t defeated and you’d need to provide a compelling argument for it not mattering.

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• spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  “It does if you are mad about me cheating on you.”

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• PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Old friend of mine: “Will this matter at my funeral?”

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