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Options (things) can be taken away, while our core ability to choose (free will) cannot be.
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Even if quantum indeterminacy did bubble all the way up to behavior, there is the fatal problem that all it would produce is randomness.
Robert M. Sapolsky • Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
@AaronBergman18 @vivposts I mean, I kind of agree and kind of don't. It depends what you mean by "demonstrate."
One reading of what you're saying is a kind of methodological epiphenomenalism: we can't assume that consciousness has any external effects. I think that's problematic. But it is singular... See more
For the longest time, willpower was seen more as a character trait than a resource.
Sönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking
there is no need to go outside the universe and identify a supernatural agent to account for our appearance in it, since there are good, entirely natural explanations available.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
Demosthenes, parsed out, was thus saying that man displays not only simple, pain-avoiding psychological denial but also an excess of optimism, even when he is already doing well.
Charles T. Munger • Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
On Bullshit
The document discusses the nature and prevalence of bullshit, distinguishing it from lying and exploring its connection to skepticism and the pursuit of personal sincerity.
www2.csudh.eduKnowledge in this sense does not have to be known by anyone: the moth does not know its wings are black. ‘Knowledge’ merely denotes a particular kind of information, which has the capacity to perpetuate itself and stay embodied in physical systems—in this case by encoding some facts about the environment.
Chiara Marletto • The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist's Journey through the Land of Counterfactuals
realism, or a “realist empiricism.”117