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I wonder how much of the complexity is "semantic." Ie, our language concepts just break down when trying to describe willpower addiction and their interaction..
by dalbasal 8y ago
I wonder how much of the complexity is "semantic." Ie, our language concepts just break down when trying to describe willpower addiction and their interaction... addiction is wanting something even though you really don't want to want it.
- dmreedy 8y agoI'd go one step further. There are two models vying against each other here; Free Will and Materialist Determinism. We often try to believe in both at the same time, and it causes all sorts of dissonance in comprehension and expression.
- rjbwork 8y agoI've noticed that quite a lot of our behavior boils down to this conflict.
- pmoriarty 8y agoYou don't have to be a materialist to be a determinist. Nor do you have to be a determinist if you're a materialist. The beliefs are completely orthogonal.
- dmreedy 8y agoIndeed not, hence why I named them separately. I'm alluding specifically to the combination here, where the mind is a purely mechanical thing that is a function of its inputs. Which makes a concept like "self-control", as a moral construct, difficult to model, at least in any meaningful way.