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this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2023
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carefully leaves his philosophical hard determinism at the door.
Well, I'd better learn a thing or two
One of the highest-level, most abstracted arguments against the idea of humans as deterministic goes like this:
I'm trying to patch together my conception of free will and determinism to sum it up here in answer, but it's full of holes. Basically it goes like this. Determinism is the rule of nature and, of course, mankind. Free will doesn't exist. Some measure of freedom and emancipation, on the other hand, do exist. It's hard to sum it up. Basically, very close to a spinozist stance, just with more holes and gaps. But I'll stop here since the OP specifically asked to leave philosophical perspectives at the door.
That's a good argument. It reminds me of the idea of free will as a necessary illusion. Something that us fundamentally not true, but without which societies can't operate.
A functional truth, demonstrated by the success of its adopters, rather than by its intact logical proof.