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What is the difference between 'decision' and 'chance'? What 'decisions' we make are illusions created by chance; discourse is saturated with this false dichoto

• 082349872349872 2y ago
  Are you suggesting that all is predetermined? Or have I misunderstood? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyrd#Fate_in_Germanic_mythology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyrd#Fate_in_Germanic_mytholog... or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democritus#:~:text=Democritus%20held%20that,churning%20in%20chaos%2c https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democritus#:~:text=Democritus%... or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclitus#Fire_as_symbolic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclitus#Fire_as_symbolic or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predestination#Hinduism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predestination#Hinduism or ???
  • punpunia 2y ago
    Yes, or rather, that things are determined. I think such an idea is plainly correct. The idea that people have the ability to 'make decisions' or to 'do otherwise' has no physical or even logical basis. It is the kind of life-centric thinking that we are special bits of matter that somehow has some ability to transcend cause and effect. Most philosophers resolved this by redefining free will to mean something other than 'the ability to do otherwise' since that definition is logically incoherent.
• mensetmanusman 2y ago
  “ What 'decisions' we make are illusions created by chance” Everything except for this sentence that is :D