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And, since I am my brain, it follows that I am an active participant in the deterministic process. It is not the determinism precludes free will — it is the other way around. Free will depends on determinism,

The will is influenced by processes and antecedents beyond its control, but the mind, subconsciously and consciously, processes those inputs to determine an output, The brain is an active participant in the deterministic process.

I don’t care what Sabine Hossenfelder thinks — or anyone else, for that matter. Can you respond to this post?

OK. Putting aside the fact that we have a purported mathematical claim that the universe CANNOT be simulated, I am struggling to understand why you seen to think not just that our universe is in fact simulatied, but that you are the only conscious being in it. Can you please lay out your...

Or is it that you HOPE the slaughtered animals are p zombies and don’t actually suffer? That is a noble wish. Wishful thinking, however, is rarely a good guide to reality

AI simulations are algorithmic. The cited article says no such algorithms can succeed in doing what you claim. This reply is completely beside the point. Generative AI gives you not a single reason to think that our universe is simulated, and that you are the only conscious entity in it. The...

You believe we are in a simulation, which has been shown to be impossible, and only you are conscious in this simulation, along with the simulators outside of it? I guess you do not realize how daft this is? Yes, you should face reality.

Belief in compatibilism is not faith based. It is empirical and analytical. However, I guess one could “argue” that belief in anything at all, including my own existence, is faith based. If one takes that tack, why discuss anything at all?

TBH, and trying not to be offensive, this is not mentally healthy thinking,

So … you are a solipsist. Dude. So, what … we are all p zombies inside a video game except for you? You realize there is a difference between a simulation and a video game?

“Fatalistic determinism.” Fatalism and determinism are not the same thing, I have examined two arguments for fatalism, theological and epistemic, and shown that both run afoul of logic. I await an argument for fatalism. Free will can be empirically observed almost every moment of every day...

“Quiet piggy” seems the perfect response to so many of Swizzle’s posts,

I don’t give a fuck what they SEEM to be, ARE they? And, if we could make conscious entities, will they also be going around offering to write suicide notes for adolescents? Do you seriously believe you are the only conscious entity that lives in what you imagine to believe a simulated universe?

What we see yet again is a whole generation of what FDR contemptuously labeled “self seekers” who only care about their own wallets and care nothing for the public good. This is also a good example of why we need philosophy. I am sure none of the assholes who make these reckless things ever...

Ain’t this nice? Good going, high-tech hucksters.