Nebulasaurus
Feb 10, 2025

True "free will" would imply that every person or sentient being constitutes a unique "law" or "axiom" of the universe. This would violate Occam's Razor, and is therefore incoherent.

But what doesn't violate Occam's Razor and is coherent is the idea that we all simply represent different manifestations or perspectives of the same universal will - similar to the way we think of gravity or electromagnetism. We all have a "will" towards some end at any given moment. But it's not a "free" will, since it's determined by everything else.

This doesn't mean that we are all exactly the same. Humans are all different from each other, to be sure. But the differences between one person and another are not necessarily any more different that any one person is from themself from one given moment in time to another.

Nebulasaurus
Nebulasaurus

Written by Nebulasaurus

I think most people argue for what they want to believe, rather than for what best describes reality. And I think that is very detrimental to us getting along.

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