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I do accept that there is some "determinism" in life. You do not choose the game, you do not choose the board and you do not choose the pieces. However, you ar
by Raphmedia 10y ago
I do accept that there is some "determinism" in life. You do not choose the game, you do not choose the board and you do not choose the pieces.
However, you are playing the game. To say that you have no control and that the game is playing itself is to have "mauvaise foi".
Life might limit your options but only you can make choices.
To wait until life cuts out all options but one is not letting life make choices for you. It's deceiving yourself. No choices are made, options are simply slowly getting removed from you. That's not having no freedom, that's not acting on your own freedom.
Hardcore existentialists will even say that the act of not acting on your own freedom is an act of freedom itself. You are free to let life take all options from you.
- state_less 10y agoSuppose I could show you a "Raphmedia" response that I calculated, held aside while you were making this post, then showed you my calculated responses (top-5). If we compared the corpus to what you wrote, would you think differently about determinism and who you are? Maybe right? This presuppose I know a lot about Raphmedia, I'm thinking brain scan type detail (Google does pretty well with the search bar autocomplete using a lot less info). I sort of feel like Raphmedia could be encoded, same here as well. Still, I enjoy the chats :)