(December 11, 2018 at 11:51 am)Chad32 Wrote: I'm sure it's a mix of both. A lot of what we are comes from things outside of our control, either by nature or nurture. Yet I'm also sure that some things are in our control too. This is probably one of those really big philosophical things that doesn't have one simple answer. Even if we don't have true free will, we should still probably act as if we have some. Just to keep us from getting stagnant in the idea of traditions. One of the things that hold back progress is the thought that "This is just how it is. Why change it?"
The theory proposes that both nature and nurture are purely predetermined by an entity that operates as the sum of all physical laws. Our sense of self is a side-effect of this entities choices as they are made manifest through the actions predetermined for us. There are those that say there is no god (divine intelligence). But this is the idea that there is no man (human intelligence). And the neat thing is, the data backs it up.
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