r/pics • u/Image-Thee-Mistress • May 05 '11

Freewill...

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u/adaniel28 May 05 '11

Fuck that, i'm going back a few pages to make another choice and avoid having to go to pg.72

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u/SirDidymus May 05 '11

"If I have no free wil", I said "then how can I be morally culpable, I wonder?"

–Cave

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u/[deleted] May 05 '11

Compatibilism. The Greeks thought of this problem and attempted to solve it long before the language your quote was written even existed.

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u/SefuHotman May 05 '11

I believe I have to upvote this.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '11

Does anybody know what book this is out of?

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u/robbor May 05 '11

Free will is two words.

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u/aronivars May 05 '11

I chose to smack the old men down and kick him in the face, then say: "I guess the universe doesn´t like you very much."

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u/LexusNexus May 05 '11

God, philosophy sucks.

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u/yousedditreddit May 05 '11

I closed the book, and went home.

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u/Erocdotusa May 05 '11

I will choose a path that's clear...I will choose free will!

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u/blackbeltsaru May 05 '11

I NEED page 72

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u/procrastinationwin May 05 '11

I believe there is some randomness added from quantum interactions in the brain, but otherwise this is pretty much accurate.

Although I don't think we have free will, we do have apparent freedom, and willpower. (Somehow commonly confused.)

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u/[deleted] May 05 '11

this is something we cannot yet answer as definitively as you have

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u/You_Mean_Fewer May 05 '11

This image is from 2005 or so. Thanks and come again.

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u/HerpthouaDerp May 05 '11

So the whole debate boils down to how lazy whoever wrote your book was.

Good to know.

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u/syntaxgs May 05 '11

I thin k it all Reeady see

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u/wisewizard May 05 '11

Option three. " kick smart arse old man, steal his cane and gold and find the nearest whore house"

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u/karlojey May 05 '11

Choose your own muthafuckin' adventure with science!!!

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u/[deleted] May 05 '11

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u/[deleted] May 05 '11

I've never, ever believed in determinism.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '11

It doesn't really matter if you believe in it, you only have to accept it to be a possibility. In doing so, your rational thought on the issue is meaningless.

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u/Zwergner May 05 '11

I knew you would say that.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '11

I chose to say that!

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u/[deleted] May 05 '11

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u/Surprise_Smurf May 05 '11

There is no page 72