Did something I am now learning I shouldn't have done - Looked into Free Will.
So, I like tech news, among my sites is ArsTechnica. Yesterday I stumbled on to this gem (link Determinism Vs Free Will)
Got to reading it, but now my anxiety is ramping up. Which is bad because I have GAD and Depression. I'm on meds, but I don't like how I'm feeling. I now can't shake the feeling of the determinist view being right. But if that were true (which I am mentally resisting), there is no ME to begin with. I'm just the flame alight from the candle of my body. Thankfully in
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@CommanderSouth, you remind me an awful lot of 25-years-ago me, with all the quest to know, and unassailable doubts, and taking queues about humanity from works of fiction and all. I came within a few credit hours of getting a minor in philosophy trying to figure out what I believed. Here's how I resolved things:
Now, a quarter of a century later, I'm still going strong. (I still take queues about humanity from scifi though. A good author can have a lot to say about the nature of hum
