RE: Free will and you.
March 15, 2016 at 6:24 am
(This post was last modified: March 15, 2016 at 6:27 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 14, 2016 at 6:23 pm)truth_seeker Wrote:Ah but it doesn't. They both end at some specific state, but the road you take to get there is different between the two. Subtlety is key. Absurd is absurd, an absurdist will can be constrained by absurd restrictions and yet in-determinate. Go ahead and consider the binary option though, that's usually -so- informative. It;s not as if you're bound to fuck it up when constraining all possible options to only those two.(March 14, 2016 at 6:11 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Or fatalistic, or absurdist. No shortage of options. We've told so many stories about our will at this point it;s hard to tell exactly what people mean to express.
well, fatalistic, by definitions, reduces to determinstic.
and absurdist, by definition, reduces to free.
In this sense, of course, there is no shortage of options rewording
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