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Doesn't really matter what you "believe" if it's demonstrably true that you're shaped by your environment.
by andrepd 6y ago
Doesn't really matter what you "believe" if it's demonstrably true that you're shaped by your environment.
- luckylion 6y ago"Shaped" is somewhat different from fatalism though. Do you have a choice in the matter, or is there no choice at all and you're just going through the motions that your genes ("what you started with") + the environment ("what happened to you") determined for you?
- wisty 6y agoAny reasonable definition of "you" would suggest a mind with free will (at least to a certain level of approximation). Also, aside from any philosophical mind / matter or free will / predestination arguments, it's not just a question of what is, but what is a more adaptive belief.