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I recommend studying metaphysics. Scientism and its presumed mechanistic metaphysics are not coherent.

If metaphysics were real, it'd just be called physics.

Physics is about matter. If you were only matter, you'd have no free will.

We are only matter. But "only" is great way to devalue something pretty fucking amazing. Consider that you are using matter right now to think.

Who says we have free will? I think the jury is out on that one.

The sheer number of interactions in our environment per femtosecond is astounding. They're dynamical inputs into our brain that compound over time. It's certainly enough to approximate "free will" at our level of detection.

Metaphysics looks like a lot of vacuous garbage to me; the sort of vacuous garbage that people use as intelectual mimicry.

It is nevertheless worth looking at - in order to know what to avoid.

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