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dsizzle 81 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Confessions of a Theoretical Physicist

Why would you assume it's all or nothing? Will (free or otherwise) implies something like effort and clearly we're not constantly applying effort. Believing in free will doesn't mean believing that everything results from it.

fijiaarone 80 days ago [–]

Usually people that don’t being in thought can’t think, so from their limited perspective, their arguments kinda make sense.

It’s like white swans. If you’ve never seen a bird, you might think that nobody has ever seen a white swan.

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