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Re:You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it by jebarker on Thursday April 25, 2024 @07:16AM (#40156031)
If there's "no going back" doesn't that imply you don't have free will and therefore you can't really choose what you do and don't do?
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Re:You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it by qwery on Thursday April 25, 2024 @07:56AM (#40156363)
If you want to read it literally, no. They can't "go back" without deciding to do so, which would be continuing to choose what to do.

If you read it as the common English phrase "there's no going back", no. It's just a thing people say in place of something more dry like "I will continue doing this for as long as I feel I should which I currently think is a long time or forever but saying that would be a bit ridiculous".

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Re:You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it by layer8 on Thursday April 25, 2024 @10:43AM (#40158182)
You can choose what you do, but you cannot choose what you want to do. Choices are usually heavily biased by who and what we are.
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