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| Nov 14, 2016 at 18:20 | history | edited | user9166 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 14, 2016 at 0:07 | comment | added | user9166 | (Sorry to delete comments, but I want to put that more directly.) Exactly what changes about this argument if the determinism is genetic and not mechanical? Nothing but a couple words. You are still projecting God the Architect onto something you want to put outside yourself. Alienation is the choice of inauthenticity: an attempt not to accept responsibility for the part of ourselves we would like to blame on God/physics/genes/Satan/Error/attachment/Mommy/Capitalism/whatever... | |
| S Nov 13, 2016 at 23:37 | history | suggested | MmmHmm | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 13, 2016 at 23:00 | comment | added | Ronald Railgun | by the way I am not so much interested in free will (yet). It's the alienation that bothers me. Alienation that appears in me when I have one part of my that's driven by instincts and the one that is like a witness of them. | |
| Nov 13, 2016 at 22:48 | comment | added | Ronald Railgun | thanks for the answer. The discussion has shifted a bit towards the following question, what are your thoughts about it? "If I as a primate was wired to like certain stuff and treat something as important, how do I continue on living knowing that those preferences were just instincts that trickled through the sieve of natural selection, some evolutionary advantageous configuration?" | |
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| Nov 13, 2016 at 18:01 | history | edited | user9166 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 13, 2016 at 17:55 | history | answered | user9166 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |