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> I believe humans have true agency, rather than being purely deterministic biomachines. You seem to assume that both are inherently contradictory. I used to h
by bossyTeacher 2y ago
> I believe humans have true agency, rather than being purely deterministic biomachines.
You seem to assume that both are inherently contradictory. I used to have the same belief,but is not necessarily the case. But if you have a physicalist view of the universe and everything inside it, then you will eventually conclude that you can have determinism and agency.
A lot these dichotomies come about because people implicitly have some deeply held support for some kind of cartesian dualism (which is not compatible with physicalism).
- BalinKing 2y agoYeah, as you guessed, I am indeed not a physicalist :-) I’m a Christian, so I believe in non-material existence a priori. Although, I don’t think that’s a particularly strong assumption on my part—frankly, I think it’s weaker than physicalism, which itself is often taken as a matter of faith.