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Re:Hi, I’m from the games industry. Governments, please stop us by stephentmcm on Sunday December 13, 2015 @09:08PM (#10729010)
>b) We overturn the majority of our current social psychology knowledge and realize that yes, people actually do have absolute free will

Err... All current research suggests that you have almost no free will and are little more than a complex set of reactions to external stimulus.

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Re:Hi, I’m from the games industry. Governments, please stop us by noobermin on Sunday December 13, 2015 @10:12PM (#10729220)
Hence his comment. He's replying to people who claim all/most transactions in capitalism are willful actions by free, rational actors.
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Re:Hi, I’m from the games industry. Governments, please stop us by Paradigma11 on Monday December 14, 2015 @02:10PM (#10733086)
So there is no unexplained variance in behaviour and we have models that explain and predict it as good as let's say classical mechanics?

Free will is just a conceptual mistake based on metaphysics.

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