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"Other than that indefinable quality that distinguishes us from other things, how are we different from other things?"
by dumbo-octopus 3y ago
"Other than that indefinable quality that distinguishes us from other things, how are we different from other things?"
- trescenzi 3y agoI think the point is a bit more interesting than that. If you instead suppose we don't have free will, and there is no indefinable quality, then suddenly it’s not anymore scary to be a conscious galaxy than it is to be a human.
- dumbo-octopus 3y agoRight, but you're supposing away the entire essence of the discussion. If you take for granted we have no free will, our indistinguishability from anything else in the universe is an immediately obvious logical consequence.