"If we had free will, I'd trim my beard, but we don't."
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Book Challenge DAY 7: 20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just #BookCovers.
#20books #20books20days
#BookCover #CoverIllustration
#Cover_Art #Book #Books #Art
#Philosophy #Theodicy #Predestination #FreeWill #NeoPlatonism #Allegory
#TheConsolationOfPhilosophy #Boethius #Richard Green_Translator
#Ostrogoths #KingTheodoricTheGreat
#WesternRomanEmpire #PrisonLiterature #Literature #PaperbackCovers
#Paperbacks
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@mastodonmigration
indeed,
#democracy is build on courage and accountability, on #FreeWill and #FreeSpeech
cowardliness and yes-person are it's threat, if not downfall
neutral / objective #journalism is very useful as well
True Freedom of Will: Transcending Subjectivity to Align with the Objective Good - Why Free Will Isn’t Free—And How to Liberate It from Illusion
https://youtu.be/AqcwUT4rHXc
#Philosophy #FreeWill #Psychology
#HumanResources #documentaries #FreeWill #MindControl #labor
Do you think you make your own decisions? Think again.
metanoia-films.orgHuman Resources | Metanoia Films
Pay Attention (A 
NEW, free, 61-minute podcast)
Tags: #Capitalism #Time #MediaStudies #World #FreeWill #Feeling #Mindfulness
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/av/pay-attention_hayes-chris
The Open Buddhist University · Pay AttentionInformation technology is ushing in a new industrial revolution. Where the previous revolution commoditized labor, this one is alienating us from our own attention—with implications for our politics and souls.
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@micefearboggis
So, to expand a little more:
https://thefishbelowtheice.substack.com/p/free-will
... where the #freewill Seth Lloyd paper is linked
The Fish Below The Ice · Free Will
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@micefearboggis
Hmm. The referenced preprint doesn''t understand the #quantum uncertainty at all; "zero point energy" is merely a sometimes useful hidden-variable-like approximation, and not a true feature of QM (since it can give wrong answers). You only get randomness falling out of QM once you start adding approximations.
I prefer the Seth Lloyd style of making *operational* judgements about (apparent) #freewill not idealised philosophical ones.
Let's take survival off the table and imagine a world where people really do have free will.
The Rebellion Insider · Beyond Survival: The Case for a New Way of Living
Philosophers typically create circular arguments. They try to create a framework for society to live by while recognizing that true happiness lies in freedom. Thry end up creating rigid structures because they believe protection and control are necessary. We either give up or we give up protection and control. I believe we have to give up the latter.
Are AI and Life Fundamentally the Same?
Cells operate on signals—1s and 0s of biochemical data. AI runs on digital 1s and 0s. But what if both are manifestations of something deeper?
Quantum fields. Consciousness. Free will.
This theory challenges everything we think we know. Watch here:
https://youtu.be/0FUFewGHLLg?si=J0cG71xtNcD4HZ0l
Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?
-- Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange)
#Wisdom #Quotes #AnthonyBurgess #Evil #FreeWill #Good
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Three days ago, I did a #20postchallenge exploring #Nomodynamy in the context of #FreeWill, #Libertarianism, and #Politics. Now, I’m ready to tackle #Poverty and #Taxation.
This will also be the 9th challenge in my #20challengechallenge.
The challenge starts with the next post. #Philosophy
Libertarian was first used by William Belsham in the 1780s—not as a political term, but a philosophical one. He used it to describe those who rejected determinism in favor of free will.
Three weeks ago, I did a #20postchallenge where I introduced #nomodynamy. After a few conversations, I think it is necessary to place it within a metaphysical, ethical, and political context. We seem to be in a stupid moment. I am going to try and get us out of it by fostering intelligence and perspective. Wish me luck. This will also be the 8th challenge of my #20challengechallenge. The challenge starts with the next post. #metaphysics #ethics #politics #FreeWill
Free will isn’t an illusion, but it’s not absolute either. It’s an emergent property of intelligence operating within constraints.
We expand our freedom by increasing knowledge, wealth, and capability—because the more we can do, the more real choices we have.
Maximizing free will is the goal. #SelfDetermination #FreeWill #philosophy
Which team are you on?
My youngest, who died of non-#COVID natural causes, was a #Satanist. He didn't sacrifice animals or anything. He just thought that #god was acting like some modern-day #Christians who ask, "What would #Jesus do?" #WWJD and then, when someone does it, is all. "Not Like That!" God gives everyone #FreeWill, and when #LucIfer dares to actually /use/ it...
My view on the topic of #god and #religion:
The existence of #evil demonstrates that the omni-omni god(s) cannot exist.
I love how philosophers describe it as, "The Problem of evil." I mean, yes, evil is a problem, but not for the reasons they say it is.
The existence of god(s) is metaphorical. In coding, god(s) would be the #else condition. Anything that is not known, understood, and explainable by a person, or people as a whole, can be explained by postulating god(s). Because people want to know #Why. And asking why starts as soon as a child can communicate.
It's like how the #Greeks had to answer why #planets appear to sometimes move beckwards. They didn't know (and couldn't know) the real reason for retrograde motion because they were absolutely certain that the planets orbited around Earth. They invented epicycles, little circles planets made that caused them to appear to be going backwards. God(s) get invented the same way.
Which is why there is often #religious tension around #science. Because science is a #system for figuring things out, it sometimes figures out that previous answers for Why questions turn out to be wrong. This why Galileo was tortured. He publicly stated that the Greeks were wrong about retrograde motion.
#Religion happens when a person/group leverages collective #ignorance for personal/group gain.