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Under any practical consideration, free will is nothing more than an emotion; it offers you no capabilities, only a propensity to respond to things in a certain
by Retra 7y ago
Under any practical consideration, free will is nothing more than an emotion; it offers you no capabilities, only a propensity to respond to things in a certain way. Without a useful definition of free will that offers something different to this, you won't have a key to anything.
- colordrops 7y agoWhy it has to be useful? We try to understand countless things without have a use case in mind at the time of study.
- Retra 7y agoSo you're fine with a key that doesn't open anything? How will you know it is a key at all then? >We try to understand countless things without have a use case in mind at the time of study. You're making a pretty clear reference to mathematics & science here, but in those disciplines we study things with well-defined structures. We don't study flighty nonsense because it's not ever going to be useful. You shouldn't invoke this phrase to excuse a lack of precision and clarity.
- colordrops 7y agoCalling it a key is your own reframing, implying a use case.
- Retra 7y agoYou called it a key. I said it is not unless it has a useful purpose.
- colordrops 7y agoA key to understanding free will, not a key to using this understanding in any particular way.
- Retra 7y agoWhat understanding? If you can't do anything with it, what do you understand?
- colordrops 7y agoWhy must understanding be conflated with utility?
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