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   Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE (timwardcam@c.im)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Feb-2026 04:42:17 JST Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE

   • Mr. Bill

   @bmacDonald94 "The beginning of wisdom is the awareness that there is insufficient evidence that... we are responsible ... for our own destiny"

   And the next stage of wisdom is to discover physics and learn that actually there is no such thing as free will ...

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     Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE (timwardcam@c.im)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Feb-2026 04:45:56 JST Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE

     • Mr. Bill

     @bmacDonald94 The consensus seems to be something along the lines of:

     "There is no physical basis for free will, therefore it does not exists. But ... as we can't in practice predict how anyone is going to behave in the future, including ourselves, we might as well live our lives as if free will is a thing after all."

     Mr. Bill repeated this.
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     Shane Celis (shanecelis@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Feb-2026 05:04:26 JST Shane Celis

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     • Mr. Bill

     @TimWardCam @bmacDonald94 What's funny about this is beliefs are causally efficacious, regardless of determinism. So whether you believe you have free will or not, that affects your behavior. It's practical to behave as though you have free will despite a free-will-less philosophy. It is hard to find characters in fiction though who live with the impractical nihilistic interpretation. I believe the only time I've seen it is in No Country For Old Men (2007).