This "choice" is just the manifestation what you are at that moment, the sum of everything that has influenced you up until this point. Whether that complex tangle of cause and effect was "determined" a million years ago or affected by random fluctuations the whole way, including a moment ago, doesn't change anything. "Free will" just doesn't make any sense, regardless of whether one considers predeterminism to be the alternative.
blackbrook
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I'd suggest checking out fish shell.
It's taking semantics from one frame of reference and trying to apply them in the frame of reference of an entirely different scale, realizing that it doesn't work the same way, and then claiming that it is therefore "wrong".
Allowing for quantum randomness does not help the free will argument. Randomness might be "free", but it is certainly not but "will".
Maybe he plans to wear a weight belt.
Duh! Just wait for low tide!
Tides are a phenomenon where the height of the edge of a body of water shifts relative to the shore. A phenomenon is a thing. Why should explaining its cause in those terms have any effect on that?
I would like to submit the hypothesis that this crazy uncle has a whole elaborate system of crazy ideas behind that frog thing.
When has it ever been a realistic worry that we would just very suddenly completely stop using oil? This is like being in a car careening down a hill and saying to the people saying "hit the brakes!" "Woah whoa, do you have any idea what would happen if we deccellerated to a complete stop in a millisecond? We'd be crushed flat! "
What if the painter meant a 6 but an entire culture, entire nations of people have be interpreting it as a 9. For hundreds of years this has been known as "the place with the big 9." The author's interpretation of the meme is stupid. Human-decided things like this do not have objective right and wrong the same way that facts about the physical world do.
People can be pretty immature at 40 also.
And not every relationship has to be the last one. You learn from every relationship.