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#freewill

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Børge

SMBC is just so good! I don't understand how @ZachWeinersmith can be so consistently so great for so long! Every time I look at a few random strips from any time, I always want to share at least some of them!

This is just a random example that I just read and had to (because there's no free will, get it!?) share smbc-comics.com/comic/2010-12-

Please share your favorite (if that's even possible to quantify) SMBC strip here!

www.smbc-comics.comSaturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 2010-12-29Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 2010-12-29
#SMBC#FreeWill#webcomic
notBread 🏴‍☠️

Capitalism cannot function without the concept of freewill. Those behind the wheel must make everyone else believe that their subjugation is a choice.

Capitalists often claim that the rest of us have an option as to which capitalist to work for or which product to consume. (Trading the wages given by one capitalist for the goods produced by another is the action that undergirds the system) However, they always ignore every choice that is made by someone else that affects us. All the while, putting the responsibility of choices on those that have the least power to change them (e.g. climate change, being poor, no accessiblity options).

[ #aniCapitalism #capitalism #freewill #socialism ]

DrBob, Neurologist, 🧠Mechanic

Are You an NPC? (Or Do You Have Free Will?)

“Kurzgesagt attempts to answer the question (from the perspective of physics): Do we have #freewill? Here’s the deterministic perspective (from the show notes):

Now imagine that if right after the #BigBang, a supersmart #supercomputer looked at every single particle in the universe and noted all their properties. Just by applying the deterministic laws of #physics, it should be able to predict what all the particles in existence would be doing until the end of time”

kottke.org/24/06/are-you-an-np

notBread 🏴‍☠️

Free will is a fiction helpful to capitalism. In that it ignores all the possible choices made for us by others and attributes all choices after that as our own.

Our choices are limited by who we were born to, where we were born, how much money our parents have, what languages we speak, the availability of education, the local religion, our family's place in society's hierarchy, our assigned gender, our peers, if a foreign government decides to intervene, whether we have enough food or not, are but just a few non-choices in our lives that determine our future behaviour or beliefs.

The vast majority of people neither have free will under a hierarchical system devoted to capital, nor can they have success as society defines it. Their choices are constrained to make the lives of the rich more comfortable.

Which is why capitalism cannot fix poverty, because it views the poor as having an ability to "choose" to not be poor. In essence, capitalism can never change something that it needs to survive. In the same way it cannot fix wealth inequality, homelessness, racial inequalities, or any of the other problems that it leaves to fester.

Capitalism benefits from the illusion of free will. It tries to convince us that we have a choice to be successful or not, but to do that we must disregard everything about our current living conditions and all the barriers put up to keep money in the hands of the already wealthy.

[ #freewill #determinism #antiCapitalism ]

KilleansRow 🇺🇲 🇺🇦🍀

A Single Degree Of #Freedom Is All You Need Dept:
Today's disbelievers in #FreeWill are the equivalent of tomorrow's #FlatEarthers and #Antivaxxers, unable to appreciate the vastness of a time dimension that stretches more than thirty seconds into the future. They've even flattened #Spacetime in order to justify their artifice. Never mind the possibility of a nominal seven extra dimensions they have no idea on. But...#FineTuning ! Yeah about that. Show me ur #QuantumGravity. I'll show you mine

Androcat

It is always interesting to see how people talk about free will, because they very often don't have a clear idea of what the term means (even to themselves).

Most of the debate (on both sides) just seems to be people spinning out straw men, while guarding against making testable claims.

My own solution is to start with the meaning.

"Free will is that feeling we have that we do things on purpose - it is not 'that we do things on purpose', it's just the feeling that we do"

And then it is simple to answer: Yes, free will exists. You feel it, I feel it, even that epiphenomenology guy feels it.

An entirely different question is "do we do things on purpose?"

And strangely enough, the crux of that question isn't "what does on purpose mean?" but rather "who is this 'we'?".

#freewill #freewillskepticism @philosophy

Continued thread
We Can Be Gyros

"The ultimate goal, though, is federal action, said Jared Genser, #Neurorights Foundation outside general counsel and managing director at Perseus Strategies. The foundation helped to push Chile in 2021 to become the first country in the world to enshrine mental privacy and #freewill in its national constitution."

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