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FREEWILL

                                                   April     6, 2009
                                                   February 18, 2010

                                    SELF
     Free will is
     something which is
     experienced, rather
     than an abstraction           Even if you suppose that every
     to be "proved".               choice is foreordained, that's
                                   just a detail, because the
                                   choices are still there, part
     At this moment, I can         of the fabric of the
     continue writing this,        determined universe.
     switch to writing code,
     get up from the computer         It cannot be turned into an
     and go talk to my partner,       "illusion" by any advances
     or go for a bike ride, or        in knowledge of the physical
     any number of other              nature of the universe
     things.                          (e.g. determined/ random,
                                      one world-line or multiple
     That sea of possibilities        branching ones, etc).
     is the ocean we swim through,
     doubting the reality of it's         The physical        In the absence
     existance is an absurdity            phenomena           of any actual
     just as it would be absurd           underlying          foreknowledge
     to doubt the existance of            human thought       of what is
     your self.                           could be            supposedly
                                          determinstic,       foreordained it
         No one really                    or random, or       remains a
         does, do they?                   something more      hypothetical
  SELF                                    complicated         metaphysical
         (On the other hand,              without changing    quibble.
         sometimes I wonder               the existential
         about all you zombies...)        experience.             QUINCUNX


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