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by tasty_freeze
663 days ago
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As the famous quote goes, you are free to choose, but you aren't free to choose what you choose. Unpacking: assuming you aren't coerced, you choose one of N options "freely". But all the factors (many inscrutable) that contribute to the ultimate choice are predetermined from your biology to all your lived experience (which ultimately is encoded in your brain in some manner). Sam Harris has a short (7 minute) video with a demonstration of this. The demonstration starts about 1:20 in, but it is worth watching the minute setup. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXTEmu-jUqA |
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