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Re:9 Things I Learned in 90 Years – From the Creator of Choo... by Quekid5 on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @04:26AM (#45344300)
That's the thing about free choice. I don't believe it fundamentally exists, but I can't help behaving as if it does.
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Re:9 Things I Learned in 90 Years – From the Creator of Choo... by bregma on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @06:15AM (#45345040)
You can always choose to believe free choice does exist. In fact it's almost mandatory to do so just to get by.
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Re:9 Things I Learned in 90 Years – From the Creator of Choo... by Quekid5 on Thursday October 02, 2025 @07:13PM (#45456689)
Congrats, you got the joke! (Not being sarcastic.)
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Re:9 Things I Learned in 90 Years – From the Creator of Choo... by psychoslave on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @04:36AM (#45344366)
Yes, that’s the ultimate argument against determinism. Either one actually sincerely believe in determinism and trying to convince someone else they are wrong about free-will are just displaying their inability to take their hypothesis to its full conclusion, or they are just trying to dispel their own doubts by bending other people opinions.
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