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DmMacniel@feddit.de 5 months agoBut how can it be free will when it’s preordained what you will be doing even it may not apparent what lead to your decision?
Comment on Are You an NPC?
DmMacniel@feddit.de 5 months agoBut how can it be free will when it’s preordained what you will be doing even it may not apparent what lead to your decision?
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 5 months ago
We don’t have free will but we have the experience of freedom.
Aspect often left out in this discussion is the rather apparent fact that “self” is an illusion. There’s no “you” in a sense that there’s this some kind of immaterial being that’s living behind your face, looking out in the world and making decisions. There’s just consciousness and its content. The sense of self is an appereance in consciousness. We experience the world from our individual perspective and it creates the illusion of there being a self that’s authoring all our thoughts and actions but there zero evidence of such thing existing. In fact according to split-brain studies it seems like your brain hemispheres don’t even agree with eachother.