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by arnoooooo 1022 days ago
Physics is about matter. If you were only matter, you'd have no free will.
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Who says we have free will? I think the jury is out on that one.

The sheer number of interactions in our environment per femtosecond is astounding. They're dynamical inputs into our brain that compound over time. It's certainly enough to approximate "free will" at our level of detection.

We are only matter. But "only" is great way to devalue something pretty fucking amazing. Consider that you are using matter right now to think.