(August 21, 2023 at 10:57 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(August 21, 2023 at 10:22 am)Ahriman Wrote: [...] the bottom line is that I am now addicted to caffeine, and I just have to live with it, for better or worse.
Addictions can be broken.
(August 21, 2023 at 10:07 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: Eitherway, its predetermined and not in any way controllable.
This is an unsupported claim.
(August 21, 2023 at 8:32 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: True. But you will have ceased to be, and that's a subjectively bad thing, is it not?
Who exists to experience this subjective badness you assert?
True, I haven't supported that claim here. I don't think freewill can exist under a materialist/physicalist worldview. Do you agree with that, but just reject materialism, or do you think it can exist under materialism?
As for who experiences subjective badness, prior to death I (laying aside the issue of identity persistence) experience the negative emotions associated with believing a substantial loss is immanent. After death there will be no I to experience the loss itself, because I will have lost myself (though others may be upset at my dying). The loss only negatively affects me whilst I exist) and others afterwards). But that's a 'bad thing' I'd rather not occur.