[nb3423]

"I'd be curious to hear how you think that can be and whether you make decisions in your own life or if you are resigned to your fate."

haha just living life as usual, whatever internal stuff is feeding my main loop.

I left the deep thoughts to threads like this one and/or people more qualified.

[pnf]

Forgive the presumption, but I really think you should abandon that model of self understanding. Fatalism is a kind of disease that can be treated if caught early but is deadly if left undiagnosed. I don't believe you are really serious but I think it's important to not live hypocritically, which such a view makes unavoidable. But joking aside, one problem with thinking of your self as a kind of Javascript runtime is that it trivializes your life. Even if a computationalist model of mind were largely correct, which I don't believe, a life worth living would reject such a thing on principle, since to believe in it is to think of oneself as a philosophical zombie, which is a creature without consciousness, without will, condemned to infect others with its own nullity, treating brains as mere food rather than the seat of human uniqueness, unable to connect with others, or even notice others except as the motive objects of their ravenous impulses. Taken seriously to oneself, this attitude is a kind of spiritual suicide. I don't recommend.

[nb3423]

no biggy, thanks for your words, it's very much appreciated. I do live well, thinking about these things brings obviously some considerations, but ultimately I don't think about myself as a script, aside the technical considerations I also need to include a margin of error to these philosofical zombie hypothesis, and if there is 1% chance of error in it (which I think there should be a lot more, for there are lots of factors to be considered), I would be resigning my free will to a false assumption, so that's why I can't live under the assumption I have no free will.

Look at the history, many "definitive" hypothesis have been refuted along the centuries, when thinking about these I can just wonder how many people have lived their entire life under false premises, just because they were 100% sure "their" philosophy was the "definitive truth".

The truth in real life is a more fluid concept, it constantly changes with entropy (the main culprit if you go all the way down the reasons for change), so I can't take my hypothesis of human determinism as a definitive truth, neither live my life under that premise.

I'd recommend to anyone also to not live theirs thinking they cannot change their own fate.

Thanks again for your words, felt very touched.

[pnf]

That's nice to hear. I think you may end up surprised at how many of the certainties of life turn out, on inspection, to be full of qualifications. I can say that's been my experience. To quote Hamlet: "There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Luckily, you don't have to find all the caveats yourself, there are plenty of eager pokers-of-balloons in the world who will gladly point out the flaws in arguments. All you have to do is cultivate a love of the counterargument and many philosophical and political certainties ebb and fade, uncovering very few, very precious leftovers, like a tide going out. Those remnants can't be lost, though, because they are a sort of foundation of your true self. They can be covered over or left to ruin but they're always there for some reason. Thanks for the exchange. Best of luck.