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> And after getting hit by it, you do not go "if only the asteroid had had more willpower it would not have hit us. I don't understand this. You tell me that n
by yetihehe 11mo ago
> And after getting hit by it, you do not go "if only the asteroid had had more willpower it would not have hit us.
I don't understand this. You tell me that not having agency is not applicable to asteroids?
> (But reality is only ever one way, disregarding quantum mechanical magic for a minute)
I think we can't really disregard quantum mechanics when talking about very complicated systems operating on the edge of being too noisy for any recognisable transmission in our neurons.
- Dilettante_ 11mo agoYou tell me that not having agency is not applicable to asteroids? The opposite: Having agency is not applicable to non-asteroids, any more than to asteroids. The asteroid was a metaphor for humans. I recognize I am not at my best at explaining right now. I think we can't really disregard quantum mechanics Then we can allow that there is a magical being outside our observable reality that is influencing the result of random-seeming quantum processes, itself unbound by deterministic physics. You may call this being "your self" and this being would indeed have agency that transcends "chain-of-dominoes" causality. I cannot disprove such a theory. But is that an interesting conversation to have?