(April 23, 2018 at 8:05 am)bennyboy Wrote: But as I see it, it is exactly for this reason that I AM free. I am a causal chokepoint, and whatever I decide, it turns out that is what I would have decided. I find this very comforting, and I game it like this: I do whatever I damn well please, because it turns out-- that crazy and spontaneous behavior was always going to be the one I exhibited.
In what qualitative way is the behavior of the system before the chokepoint different from that after the chokepoint. Essentially you are atttributing to yourself an ontologically privileged status when you are in effect just one in a long line of chemical reactions. That's like saying that when hydrogen and oxygen mix, they are somehow ontologically different than before they combined. They aren't. Perhaps as a psychological fact they are, but that's a pointless irrelevancy.