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Are most people here epiphenomenalists? Physicalists?

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[-] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 5 points 7 months ago

I don’t see how introducing the concept of free will adds any clarity to the examples you gave. Worse, I maintain it serves as a way to smuggle in idealism in analysis which is clearer and more powerful without it.

Is the righteous anger of the hungry masses rising up in revolution an expression of free will or a symptom of a lack of it? Does a bourgeois class traitor driven by empathy and visceral disgust at the injustice of it all have free will? Or one motivated by fear of the rising proletarians?

How many free wills can dance on the edge of a guillotine?

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