Are there any other robots out there who enjoy researching philosophy? I've been reading a lot lately about the concepts of determinism and pre-determinism. Harsh stuff...perhaps free will does not exist after all, as much as we might believe it does.
Normies run away from such topics like the plague.
>>38198472
Even normies "realize" there's no free will
We can never really know tho
The only way to know for sure would be to have a trillion exact copies of the universe and observe them all to see if anything went different in even one.
But that won't happen, which leaves it up to conjecture.
If physical matter is all there is, (which I currently believe), then there IS no free will. The universe was decided from the get-go
If there are hidden forces we do not understand, or if matter doesn't operate quite in the way we think it does (insert "le quantum mekanix XD" but for real tho), then there might very well be free will.
However, either way, it is usually destructive to ponder this issue, so if possible, don't.
Which is rather ironic, if there is no free will, because then you and I have no choice but to consider the question endlessly and destructively (or at least me that is)
>>38198472
philosophy is normie desu. occultism/esoteric knowledge is where it's really at