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The trap of determinism

If the world is governed by physical laws and everything is cause and effect, are your decisions truly yours, or are they just the inevitable results of chemical reactions in your brain? Can responsibility exist without free will?

Master of the ship

Do you believe that you are in control of your life through free will? Or do you believe in determinism and destiny?

Gamer Well-being

Time Displacement is used to describe the negative outcomes when media use displaces conductive or more meaningful activities. Addiction framing may equate this as a result of media technology being like a drug. But deficient decision making caused by tech media is linked to habitual behaviors as… read more

Where Lifes Patterns Repeat Themselves: Foundation vs. The Fourth Turning

1. A Universal Measure of Truth They say art imitates life, and equally, life responds by imitating art. But there is a second, darker truth We've learned from history: mankind rarely learns from history. Instead, we seem trapped in a loop, repeating the mistakes of the past constantly and… read more

Slam, Bam, Thankya Ma'am.

Recently rediscovering Path of Exile 2. I'm really starting to appreciate how they're balancing determinism with random drops. Not as forgiving as Last Epoch, but still pretty exciting as a more skill-based I-ARPG. Also: I'm choosing the bear, too. 😍 (edited)

The Weight of Determinism

​Perhaps the saddest aspect of Eren’s character is that he became a prisoner of the very freedom he sought. Once he touched Historia’s hand, he gained access to the memories of the future. He realized that his path—including the deaths of his comrades and the Rumbling—was already set in stone. He… read more

Preface to my whole continued "Life Story"

It is all about Determinism. Determinism As you may have already guessed, I am essentially an amateur philosopher. People are often defined by what they do, especially professionally, but seeing how I don't do anything professionally, I have to define 'what I am' in other contexts, and 'who I… read more

Second coming of Christ

I believe The second coming of christ is 100% not Jesus coming down in a carriage with white horses. But it will be something more profound. Jesus / Christ consciousness will be awakening in every one of us. A heart awakening. An awakening of choice and free will. It will be his truth and spirit… (edited) read more

Nobody is evil

For those who don't know, determinism is basically the idea that reality plays out like a rube-goldberg machine or in other words, your whole life is determined by the set circumstances of your birth, and everything that follows is predictable. In this way, free will doesn't exist except as an… (edited) read more

Free will and superdetermenism. In this world, is the destiny of mankind controlled by some transcendental entity or law? Is it like the hand of God hovering above? At least it is true that man has no control, even over his own will. — Berserk

Reading time: 5 to 7 minutes. > Superdeterminism Experiments violating Bell's inequalities force scientists to abandon one of two fundamental principles: realism (the belief that objects have definite, inherent properties beyond observation) and locality (the idea that things affect each other… (edited) read more

Free will is challenging to understand because we have a limited number of paths to choose from.. yet there is no way to know the future.. (Wolfram)

Computational irreducibility can be looked at as a way to reconcile determinism and free will in that there are fixed underlying rules, but you can’t know the outcomes of those rules unless you watch them unfold. Wolfram’s principle of Computational Irreducibility plays a key role in this view.… read more

My Dedication

My dedication to everything Berserk related even is endless and eternal, ever since I was a kid and now that I am an Adult I truly believe this is the greatest story ever told with so much depth and violent inquiry into the intricacies of ethics, monism vs dualism, free will vs determinism and… read more

Determinism or Randomness?

Determinism invented Free Will

The situation is worse than I thought. God plays dice, and the dice are loaded.

Determinism or Free-will?

Who can truly sort this out.. I tend towards a sort of Compatibilism argument myself Tell everyone your hunch or arguments 🙏

Which is the Better Philosophy to Follow in Life? And Why?

Time

If there is a shortest unit of length (the Planck length) could there also be a shortest unit of time? If so, time would not pass fluidly but as a series of discrete moments, like frames of animation. If hard determinism is also true, then we are essentially characters in a film in which events can… (edited) read more

Determinism or free will?

God isn't above us.

God isn't seperate from people. It's the people with their brains that try to think that, without knowing God is doing their thinking. I never believed in fate, just determinism. It's through countless books of science and philosophy that I realize it's all just our brain, it's like it's swimming… (edited) read more

Free Will or Determinism

Do you believe in free will? Determinism? I tend to fall into a form of the free will camp that also acknowledges that agency is founded by the context and historical circumstances of an action. Ultimately I do take solace in the notion that people have some agency over their actions though.

Free Will vs. Determinism

Do we have free will, or are our actions predetermined by factors beyond our control?

Anyone want to debate determinism?

I’m looking for someone who takes an opposing view on the topic of free will to chat with. *edit* I hold the view that hard determinism is true (edited)

Does free will exist

Whether our choices are truly our own or predetermined by factors beyond our control.

Do you believe in determinism?

Still the best

This might still be the best live-action depiction of the cartoonish angel and devil conversations. The cinematography is excellent showing the conflict within Mills and it allows the viewer to contemplate are the events depicted an example of determinism or free will. Did John Doe stack the deck… read more

Determinism is unfalsifiable

There is no reason to be bieleve that everything is completely determined by particles interacting with each other or by past events & laws or genes & environment or social structure or whatever kind of determinism you might hold to.

Book review

This book is about a nihilist girl who decides to end her life because she wants freedom from her apathy. She has everything she wants but still she feels empty and purposeless! Someone saves her life but her doctor tells her that she will die soon because her attempt of suicide has done… read more

Determinism or Randomness? I'm willing to hear decent reasoning.

Post 3 of my random thoughts

Is anything like this in any of the main religions "if anyone in your neighbourhood up to 20 houses away are in pain, are hungry, need anything.. Your neighbourhood has forgotten the heart of community"? We experience intense reactions to things that we perceive as probable What if the only thing… read more

Freewill or Determinism or both

Sometimes I feel us humans are just dancing marionettes.

What can you tell me about determinism?

"all events in the universe, including human decisions and actions, are causally inevitable. Determinism entails that, in a situation in which a person makes a certain decision or performs a certain action, it is impossible that he or she could have made any other decision"

Determinism or Compaibalism?

I think compatibilists are just cowards but it is more functional

Eternal Glome

This poem is Internal Gloom. Scotch with the zone I glone. Ripples of what will never be entrapped in the tomb of an External Glome. Curved arrows pointing to directions of the same things. I bi-pass and pedal on the canvas of linear actuality. Forced to curve. Innately confined to escape a… read more

Free Will VS Determinism

Do humans have the ability to make choices freely or if our actions are predetermined by factors such as genetics, environment, or past experiences. What are your thoughts on this?🤔

World affects us

Seems like a kinda obvious statement. Ofc you are getting hungry, it affects your mood, you hate yourself for not taking good care of your digestive system, you eat and that also affects your mood, now you hate yourself for not doing enougt about being fat. One of many examples of how external to… (edited) read more

Manifesto Antropófago

Only anthropophagy unites us. Socially. Economically. Philosophically. The world’s only law. The masked expression of all individualisms, of all collectivisms. Of all religions. Of all peace treaties. Tupy, or not tupy that is the question.(1) Against all catechisms. And against the mother of… read more

The groves and wrinkles in your hand.

They say the palm is a map. Lines etched before you ever learned to grip a pen, before you had the strength to clench a fist. People call them fate lines, life lines, love lines, as if someone pressed their stylus into wet clay at the hour of your making. But when I trace mine, I don’t see a map. I… (edited) read more

As it Idling

Let’s agree to disagree. Such a polite burial, really. A handshake over the grave of an argument neither of us wanted to finish digging. The phrase feels like folding a napkin over a stain—tidy enough for the table, but the wine is still there, soaking deeper into the cloth. What it really means… read more

Determinism

"All a dream to begin with, ain't nobody ever been free." #nofreewill