I’m not even an NPC. I’m just the narrator. :(
In all seriousness: The argument of emergence seems pretty flakey to me. Determinism can still account for it with a similar argument to how it accounts for quantum physics. I’m sure you can guess which camp I’m in.
no because that implies there is a player character.
You make decisions based on your ideals, values, goals and previous experiences
This is the only free will that counts, no matter if it is deterministic or not
But how can it be free will when it’s preordained what you will be doing even it may not apparent what lead to your decision?
We don’t have free will but we have the experience of freedom.
Aspect often left out in this discussion is the rather apparent fact that “self” is an illusion. There’s no “you” in a sense that there’s this some kind of immaterial being that’s living behind your face, looking out in the world and making decisions. There’s just consciousness and its content. The sense of self is an appereance in consciousness. We experience the world from our individual perspective and it creates the illusion of there being a self that’s authoring all our thoughts and actions but there zero evidence of such thing existing. In fact according to split-brain studies it seems like your brain hemispheres don’t even agree with eachother.
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