#free-will — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #free-will, aggregated by home.social.
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Persuasion is not a side effect of technology; it’s often the point. Every interface, every notification, every design decision carries with it an intent to influence behaviour.
Sometimes persuasion serves someone else’s agenda, nudging us to buy, scroll, work harder or give up privacy.
The same persuasive techniques can empower or exploit, depending on who controls the system, what goals they pursue and whether they have meaningful consent. -
"In this paper, we defend libertarian free will against this challenge from luck. We argue that most formulations of the Luck Objection presuppose a conceptual model of indeterministic decision-making that is not well aligned with recent advances in the natural sciences"
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-026-05570-5 -
A quotation from Bertrand Russell
In our own day […] there has been too much of a tendency towards authority, and too little care for the preservation of initiative. Men in control of vast organisations have tended to be too abstract in their outlook, to forget what actual human beings are like, and to try to fit men to systems rather than systems to men.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Lecture (1949-01-30), “Individual and Social Ethics,” Reith Lecture, “Authority and the Individual” No. 6, BBC RadioMore about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/838…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #authority #control #freewill #humanity #individual #individuality #initiative #management #organizations #power #systems
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Benjamin Libet: If your brain initiates action before your consciousness of deciding, then what exactly is the 'you' that thinks it is choosing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61nAQFREfYM #Freewill #neuroscience
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Ah yes, the classic existential crisis of the 21st century: enabling #JavaScript like a mindless drone 🤖 and pondering the deep philosophical implications of #cookies 🍪. Because apparently, the biggest threat to our free will is clicking "accept" when all we wanted was to read an article 🙄.
https://economist.com/by-invitation/2026/04/29/stop-big-tech-from-making-users-behave-in-ways-they-dont-want-to #existentialcrisis #freewill #technologyhumor #onlineprivacy #HackerNews #ngated -
Brian Greene in conversation with David Deutsch.
What Is Quantum Mechanics Really Telling Us? | World Science Festival
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Af5LICjFIBc
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Review: The Science of Fate by Hannah Critchlow - Review By Ian Robinson.
#Science #FreeWill
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"sure, you could have done differently _if you had wanted to_, but that's just cheating! freedom must be about doing things regardless of what you want!"
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"there is basically two sides in the #freeWill debate: compatibilists and those who find it very regrettable that they have a brain."
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They Marched On
That’s when we heard it… Boots. Drums. A distant hymn rising out of nowhere. A full Civil War brigade—flickering, transparent, marching straight toward us… and they didn’t stop. They walked *through* us. What happened next still doesn’t make sense. Something left my body. Or entered it. Thick, white… not smoke, not breath—something heavier. Kally felt it too. Different… but the same. Savannah has a way of replaying what it refuses to bury. But this didn’t feel like a replay… Full short story on my Wordpress blog. See 🔗 link in comment section.https://kandiblaze.wordpress.com/2026/04/15/they-marched-on/
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
If, as I suggested before, the ability to tell right from wrong should turn out to have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to “demand” its exercise from every sane person, no matter how erudite or ignorant, intelligent or stupid, he may happen to be.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Life of the Mind, Vol. 1 “Thinking,” Introduction (1977)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/44349/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #accountability #agency #discernment #freewill #ignorance #intelligence #judgment #moralagency #morality #obligation #responsibility #thinking #thoughtfulness
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Robert Noggle has revised his SEP-entry on The Ethics of Manipulation,
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-manipulation/
What a savoury topic, even without explicit references to sycophantic AI!
#autonomy #coercion #manipulation #ethics #freeWill #decision #deception #lying #marketing #paternalism #filosofia #etiikka #philosophy #morality #oppression #nudges #person #sycophantic #ai #generativeAI #criticism #criticalThinking
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🗽 Understanding #FreeWill – What does it really mean to make free choices? 💪
#FreeWill doesn’t require #chance or metaphysical magic. For #DanielDennett, the matter is surprisingly clear:
We are free when we are #selfdeterminedagents.📽 Interview: https://youtu.be/M2qiVz95ZYk
📎 Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/12/25/naturalistic-view/
#PhilosophyOfMind #Consciousness #Agency #Determinism #CognitiveScience #Neuroscience #DecisionMaking #Zoomposium
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https://omdaruliterature.blogspot.com/2026/03/free-will-as-self-limitation-of-god.html #FreeWill as Self-Limitation of #God #channeling #esoterics #spirituality #absolute , #karma , #manvantara , #Logos , #Jesus , #love , #Creator , #spirit , #HigherSelf , #evil , #time , #samsara
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🧠 #CulturalEvolution – Why #Brains need to interact 🧑🧑🧒
📺 https://youtu.be/C2FVIbAyaH4
📎 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/03/22/kann-das-gehirn-das-gehirn-verstehen/
#CulturalEvolution #Consciousness #Neuroscience #CognitiveNeuroscience #WolfSinger #PhilosophyOfMind #Interaction #SocialCognition #NeuralCorrelates #NCCP #Qualia #Self #I #Enactivism #ComplexSystems #NonlinearDynamics #FreeWill #Responsibility #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #QuantumPhysics #AntonZeilinger
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"Whether or not we have free will is a question philosophers have been debating for millennia. In the early 1980s, there was a brief moment when it appeared the debate may finally have been settled.
The potential solution came not from philosophy, but neuroscience.
The answer, somewhat depressingly, was that free will didn’t exist. Experiments carried out by the neuroscientist Benjamin Libet appeared to show decisions being made in the brain before people were even aware of them.
It was as if science had finally revealed the strings of the puppet master controlling our thoughts and actions.
To even casual observers of the history of inquiries into free will, this pronouncement felt premature. Thankfully, they were right.
Scientists today are much more sceptical not only of the idea that free will doesn’t exist, but also of the notion that brain scans will ever definitively prove or disprove its existence. But why?"
https://www.sciencefocus.com/wellbeing/free-will-neuroscience
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40 years of Grace Under Pressure now available on Rush Backstage
https://www.rushbackstage.com/dept/grace-under-pressure?cp=102112_116415
Freewill the Rush Experience is playing tonight in Phoenix, AZ
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Some tickets $21.12 for Freewill, the Rush Experience, this Saturday on the day of our Pi, March 14th
The show is at the Herberger Theater in downtown Phoenix, take the train if you can
Saturday, March 14th @ 19:00
freewill.net/
Freewill had its 30th anniversary show in 2024, so has been around for more than half of the 50something
#Rush #RushIsABand #PiDay #baseball #ProgRock #FreeWill #TributeBand #Phoenix #Arizona #HerbergerTheater
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My local news site published a piece promoting a book with the premise that we have no free will (https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/wellbeing/world-leading-neurobiologist-science-means-it-s-not-okay-for-me-to-hate-donald-trump). This is deeply dangerous, giving a free pass for people to commit bad deeds without repercussions, and also overly simplistic. While our brains are wired to prefer simple ‘a or b’ answers, and this helps sell books, it doesn’t align to the complex messy world we live in. Free will is a component of our existence, with its availability varying between individuals, and over time. Sure, luck and circumstance play large roles, but free will is what defines us. #FreeWill #RNZ #Aotearoa
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Free will? A luxury. Every choice was a push from Wilp.
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Sonic over here just casually poking at the biggest hornet nest in the field of philosophy and science. #philosophy #science #freeWill #determinism
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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JeanPaulSartre #FreeWill #Responsibility
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico
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@ngate It's like the AI, not being alive and having no Free Will, won't behave like a human being should.....
