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I'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
by dmreedy 8y ago
I'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.