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> “This book … is both about the science of why there is no free will and the science of how we might best live once we accept that.” Well, if there's no free
by gilbetron 3y ago
> “This book … is both about the science of why there is no free will and the science of how we might best live once we accept that.”
Well, if there's no free will, we can't help how we live, nor can we choose to accept if we believe in free will.
- jadbox 3y agoTrue, but even without free will, you can still be deterministically programmed by the book to personally operate in a way that's less illusionary. The acceptance arrives [the book claims] as a mechanical process of undergoing the reading and understanding.