Comment by NotAnAIOrAmI on 13/09/2024 at 14:42 UTC

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View submission: How does your metaphysics influence your free will belief? What is reality 'made of' in your opinion?

Since the state of all particles in the universe determines the next state, I'd say likely there's no free will.

But I don't stress about it.

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Comment by TheAncientGeek at 13/09/2024 at 18:00 UTC

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Comment by Velksvoj at 13/09/2024 at 15:57 UTC

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Yeah, I'd say that's about right - seeking will in the "ordinance", or the study of pseudo-minutia is futile, philosophically.

Particles are not some "fundamental thing". They are not even real in any non-idealistic sense. To couple the idea of free will with their arrangement, which is merely "spacetime coordination" of **entities**, misses the entire point. The entities are doing the willing and the restricting of will, not just the physicists and their instruments and the media overlords pushing their scientistic agenda.