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A comment on Hunter S. Thompson on Finding Your Purpose (1958). Parent comment

Re:Hunter S. Thompson on Finding Your Purpose (1958) by armitron on Monday August 29, 2016 @03:50PM (#12384715)
You are deluding yourself when you think you actually have a choice. A chaotic dynamical system moving between (or sitting at) attractors doesn't leave much room for Free Will.
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Re:Hunter S. Thompson on Finding Your Purpose (1958) by sireat on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @12:39PM (#12391636)
Well this is one delusion I am glad I still have.

I can delude myself that I have Free Will by choosing to take a vacation next week. Then I could flip a coin to decide my destination between Singapore and Bangkok.

Sure it was all deterministic at some level but the illusion was good enough for me.

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Re:Hunter S. Thompson on Finding Your Purpose (1958) by qu4z-2 on Monday August 29, 2016 @08:29PM (#12386502)
That all depends on how you define "choice", surely.
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