Dave. I'm not on work hours
February 20, 2026 at 3:20:39 AM
Any Magnus Alignment ? :
The spiral! The hunt. Dark. Vast. Lonely. Eye. Flesh? Corruption. Stranger. Death. Web.
Right so from my understanding of the wikipedia page - Laplace's demon/devil is a thought experiment that gets referenced in BBC sherlock. It basically states that if a being knew the present and past positions of all atoms in the universe, it could predict future positions accurately. When you apply it to people - people are a product of their environment. If you were aware of all that they have been and done, you can probably guess what they'd do accurately in a future situation. I believe people are inherently reactionary in a very much hard deterministic sense. Soft determinism is a pussy COWARD option. Free will doesnt really exist all that much i think. Its just an upsetting idea that people "have no choice". But you do HAVE the choice, its just that. You were always going to pick one option. If someone loves strawberries and was offered strawberry or chocolate ice cream, they'd take the strawberry. They had the option but they were almost certainly gonna choose the strawberry. So we have the illusion of free will but yk. Im tired im gonna bed. Hello! What do you think. Spider. Spider guy. Freaky spider guy.
Replied on: February 20, 2026 at 4:45:49 AM
If you knew of every single little thing that inclined you towards your decisions, then you would not believe in free will. An example of this is listening ears on your devices. You talk about something and then what? an advertisement for it appears. TV. Nobody is immune to propaganda and advertisements are exactly that. Humans trying to convince you their product is better than their competitor's. All of those little ads give you inclinations you can 'willingly' give into or ignore. Perhaps it is all just ignorance. Perhaps you do have a choice, but only to 'willingly' give in rather than anything else. Really it all just depends on inclinations caused by other people and the environment in question. What if you were upbeat and happy when you first tried strawberries, and that's why you like them? And what made you upbeat and happy before you tried them? Do your reactions to things depend on your mood and how much can that be predicted or shifted towards what The Spider wants?