JonFreeman #wingnut #pratt #dunning-kruger

JonFreeman #wingnut #pratt #dunning-kruger deviantart.com

I kiiiiinda think that a lot of folks who buy into the whole "free will is a lie, scientific predetermination is the way" ... fall into in of 3 camps

a) they can't think for themselves.

b) they have such low effort thought processes that others can predict their every move, so they're conned into thinking they have no free agency

c) they're the despicable con artists who can read other people and manipulate them into thinking they don't have a choice in the matter.

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I hardly ever agree with Scott Adams, who made Dilbert, but i do recall that he questions free will based on watching a hypnotist act.
The subject was told, when you hear a bell, you will quack like a duck.
Then they brought him out of the suggestive state, and rang a bell. He quacked. They asked him why he did that.
Now, as the audience, we know that he quacked because it was programmed into his subconscious. HE came up with a long winded rationale, justifying that behavior, making it a voluntary act, even a logical one in the circumstances.

Did that to a number of people. The lesson Adams took away was that our rational processes to come to a decision could just as easily be preprogrammed already with the illusionary thought process folowing as a rationalization for what’s already been decided below our conscious minds.

Of course, Jon needs to believe he’s in charge of his own life, so he reduces all opposing views to stupid and/or evil, and therefore dismissable.
Not that he’s got any actual evidence for this, just sneering.

JonFreeman #wingnut #pratt #dunning-kruger deviantart.com

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