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Do we really have freedom or free will? What can we control and how can we free our mind? How Zen practice can help you attain freedom of the mind. Leave your thoughts in the comments! #zen #zenmaster #philosophy #karma #nature #freewill https://youtube.com/shorts/0QVBWeh-S74

I think such a “small” revolution
(of the worker bees, of the foot people...)
would do us all good
and annoying the “slave bosses”
is good anyway...

And it's important
to show “them”
what democracy really means
(violence is not tolerated)

No matter where in the world

#world #mastodon #fediverse #revolution #people #human rights #humanity #human #freedom #democracy #democracy #FreeWill #BetterWorld

A metaphor explaining free will and how it works. #zen #zenmaster #dharma #freewill https://youtube.com/shorts/Iq7GqvN18yk

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 https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2010-12-29

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

Let me be upfront. 98% of you aren't going to be interested in listening to me ramble on for 20 minutes about a recent philosophical epiphany regarding determinism, non self, and free will and out of the 2% that do, most wont watch it all the way through.

I get it.

But for those who think they might be interested, please be kind in the comments. This is just me talking to the camera. No script. Just whatever comes out of my head.

Thanks.

https://davbot.media/w/huw1stBkMUyvT1xqbFoFTS
#peertube #video #freewill

A neuroscientist, eh? I could link to a physicist saying the same thing. If you want to start arguments, toss this into the ether at parties.

https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/10/25/0132221/scientist-after-decades-of-study-concludes-we-dont-have-free-will?sdsrc=popbyskid

#PatrickHaggard - #FreeWill: Key to #Consciousness?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9C7Hw2dRlw

Are humans merely deterministic robots, carrying out our pre-programming at any moment? Some scientists are convinced we don’t have free will. Kevin Mitchell, a neuroscientist and author on the subject, puts the debate in perspective. Read more from BBC Science Focus: https://flip.it/Qmcqzu
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Follow @sciencefocus for more on science.

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 ]

A new argument suggests that quantum mechanics may be more deterministic than previously thought, reigniting the debate on the relationship between physics and free will. The discussion centres around whether the indeterminacy at the quantum level leaves room for free will or if the universe is fundamentally deterministic.

#QuantumMechanics #FreeWill #Deterministic

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-quantum-physics-rule-out-free-will/

Maybe the free will debate is really about the scope of causal influences on our decisions.

With Daniel Dennett’s death, a lot of podcasters have been replaying his interviews, many of which concern his stance as a free will compatibilist. That and a recent Mind Chat episode focused on Kevin Mitchell’s strong emergence understanding of free will, left me mulling this subject again.

Cards on the table, my stance is pretty similar to Dennett’s. I’m a compatibilist who sees free will as the capacity to act with forethought, to simulate possible and probable consequences of an action and take them into account when making decisions. That ability makes the causal factors in our actions broader than the immediate circumstances, leaving something to judge aside from those circumstances, and making social responsibility a coherent and useful concept.

Of course, that isn’t libertarian free will, the putative ability that provides a freedom from the overall laws of physics. Often this is discussed in terms of determinism, with the idea that maybe if the laws have some kind of randomness in them, a level of indeterminism, it allows for an ability to have acted differently even with the same history of the universe up that point. But I can’t see how this works for social responsibility. If I can blame the deterministic laws of physics for my actions, why can’t I just as well blame the indeterministic laws?

And adding fundamental randomness actually reduces the type of freedom that makes responsibility reasonable. We want my actions based on my nature and experiences. If randomness undermines that, then how does it make sense to judge me for them? All randomness does is frustrate any ability to predict actions. But given the complexity of the processes involved with those decisions, there’s no feasible way to do that anyway.

No, for libertarian free will to be coherent, it requires that the causes of my actions transcend the causal framework of the universe, to be broader than or orthogonal to it. Which is why this type of free will is usually coupled with some form of mind-body dualism, that the mind is something different in kind. It also fits with religious traditions that involve an ultimate judge. For judging us to make sense, at least some of the causes of our actions have to be outside of that judge’s created framework. (Whether that makes sense theologically, I’ll leave to others to figure out.)

It’s also worth noting that this holds if we’re in a Matrix type simulation where our minds exist independent of the actual simulation. If the Matrix Architect judges Agent Smith, it has to be as a part of the simulation going wrong, whereas from his view actual humans like Neo have an independent will. From the Architect’s perspective, Neo’s mind is of a different kind from his body in the simulation. (David Chalmers makes a similar point in Reality+.)

So maybe the real distinction between free will libertarians and compatibilists is the scope of influences we regard as necessary for the label “free will”. Hard determinists tend to agree with libertarians on this, that the scope of that freedom must transcend physics (or at least standard physics). It’s just that hard determinists regard that as non-existent. Compatibilists generally agree with hard determinists on that non-existence, but disagree that smaller scopes of influence aren’t meaningful. It may not be for God or the simulation owner, but should be enough for human judges.

Unless of course I’m missing something?

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https://selfawarepatterns.com/2024/05/18/the-scope-of-free-will/

An FAQ About Your New Birth Control: The Music of Rush - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

"No one has ever gotten pregnant while listening to Rush. Clinical studies show that when combined with watching a male sexual partner play air bass along to the extended solo in 'Freewill,' the contraceptive efficacy of Rush approaches 100 percent."

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-faq-about-your-new-birth-control-the-music-of-rush

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 ]