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Enkers, (edited ) to asklemmy in What's the best response to someone who believes in hard determinism but also uses this to deny responsibility for any immoral actions they commit?

Sure, but the compatibilist view is, in my understanding, that determinism is true, but we still have free will. The mind is so complex its deterministic function can’t be fully predicted, so the outcome of particular inputs over any meaningful duration cannot be computed. Thus actual free will and the illusion of free are essentially functionally identical.

Enkers, (edited ) to asklemmy in What's the best response to someone who believes in hard determinism but also uses this to deny responsibility for any immoral actions they commit?

Any claim can be inverted, so lacking evidence in either direction, this applies to the inverse as well.

I personally prefer more psychologically rooted arguments that lean towards at least compatibilism. If a belief in free will, regardless of the actual fact, is sufficient to affect one’s actions, is that not evidence against hard determinism?

Enkers, to memes in I have several questions, actually

That’s a good question… I think for this to work properly, the digestive tract can’t just stop in the middle, they’ve got to be plumbed together into series. That means the first one would have to be disconnected, so if it was left in, it wouldn’t be functional in its typical evolutionary context.

Enkers, to memes in I have several questions, actually

I’d argue this is different from a centaur. Since horses have four legs and humans have two, the womanoman’s graft would need to be towards the posterior of the forward woman, instead of above the hips like where the upper part of a centaur’s graft would be. Two sets of human legs indicates there should probably be two sets of… erm… equipment.

Enkers, to memes in I have several questions, actually

Probably not. She looks like she weighs at least 200 lbs plus maybe another 40 lbs of armour and weapons. The average person would struggle to support that much weight for any significant duration, let alone…

Oh, I see. Yeah, probably.

Enkers, to science_memes in internet points

Where there’s a platform, there’s enshitification.

Enkers, to RedditMigration in This has got to be artificial

What are you even doing here? LMAO

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