• Zagorath@aussie.zone
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    3 days ago

    My take is that there is no free will, but that this fact is irrelevant and we’re all better off just behaving as though we do.

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      3 days ago

      At least here in the US, a person’s zip code of birth is a huge indicator of their success and life trajectory. That, to me, would seem to indicate that free will is bullshit.

    • Pennomi@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Or in other words, “free will” is a macroscopic effect arising from the fundamental laws of the universe. Like most everything else we deal with.

      Like… temperature doesn’t really exist, it’s really just an average of kinetic energy of particles. But that doesn’t stop it from being a useful concept!