Here’s what I’m reading:
I’m going to stop reading A Dance with Dragons and the two Star Wars books for now and wrap up Empire, Incorporated and Determined while I continue on with Das Kapital.
Bonus question:
What do you PLAN to read later on?
Enjoy!
The mental feeling of making choices and those choices being predetermined by material conditions aren’t mutually exclusive. I use my will to make all kinds of choices, and I feel like I’m making them, but my decisions are still always a product of my environment/genetics/whatever.
It’s why I don’t feel like arguing about free will is particularly productive, since the actual reality doesn’t change how that experience feels for people. It’s like arguing about whether we live in the Matrix.
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It sounds like you’re combining agency into your definition of free will. Yes, the mechanisms of your body’s behavior (choices) are occurring inside your body, you have agency. But, Free Will implies that the mind has the ability to direct those choices beyond the realm of the material world’s laws (i.e. physic; most especially, inertia.)
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To be honest, I’m not really interested in getting into it, I just wanted to clarify a conflation I thought you were making. You wanna hold on to those definitions it’s fine by me.