You missed the point while drawing your circular argument.
Take what you said and replace fly with human. Wait here I’ll do it for you:
If a human lacks agency, you would be able to predict its movement given a sufficiently accurate set of information.
If it has agency, you could not.
Now tell me how you will acquire a sufficiently accurate set of information about a human and its environment to test your hypothesis.
merc@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
It’s difficult to predict the path of a leaf floating in the wind, but I don’t think anybody would say a leaf has agency.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Orders of magnitude less difficult, as the leaf can’t glean your intent and respond accordingly.
merc@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Can you prove that?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That the movement of a leaf in the wind is less complex than the electro-chemical processes of a human brain?
With enough time and math, certainly.