(October 30, 2023 at 10:11 am)Ahriman Wrote:(October 30, 2023 at 10:07 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: No. As when I've clarified in other posts, I still use the colloquial way of talking about choice even though if asked for clarification, as now, I will explain that I mean it in the subjective experience of choice. English does not have an easy way to talk about things (especially choices and ethics) without a language that assumes libertarian freewill and moral realism, and constantly being clear about that would be exhausting.
So if you have someone on Ignore, and you click on their post to read it anyway, that's not a choice? You didn't choose to do that? Someone else made you do it?
It's not a choice in the sense that I couldn't have done otherwise and that every result is caused, and therefore predetermined, by a prior state of affairs. I experience it as a choice subjectively, but is an illusion created by my brain. At least, that's what I believe is most likely the nature of reality given what I know of the world.
