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[-] rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio 96 points 3 months ago
[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 81 points 3 months ago

That's a clever joke. I however have radical freedom!

Chooses to put the book outside

[-] tyler@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

I can’t turn to the page cuz it’s an image on a screen.

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[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 65 points 3 months ago

Unless we have a way to find out what that predetermined future is, it's irrelevant and you should proceed as if it isn't a thing.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 52 points 3 months ago

So you're saying turn to page 72.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago

If you like. You can also be a rebel and turn to a different page or stop reading the book altogether.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

But then I'll never know how it ends!

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 34 points 3 months ago

Then you can follow the path created by the author! This kind of reminds me of The Stanley Parable.

"When Stanley came to a set of two open doors, he entered the door on his left."

[-] VoilaChihuahua@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

But all the pages are 72. And your whole experience is also being described in real time on another page 72 elsewhere. 72s all the way down friend.

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[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 37 points 3 months ago

I didn't know Fallout 4 had a graphic novel!

[-] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 37 points 3 months ago

When I was like 7 my mom bought me a choose your own adventure book. I tried to read it cover to cover and was very confused.

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 10 points 3 months ago

So if you read it cover to cover, what did you think the instructions were about? What about the "turn to page X" parts?

I'm not judging - this is exactly the sort of oblivious thing I would've done as a kid too - but I'm curious how it happened.

[-] Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

I specifically remember doing this with one of the goosebumps choose your own adventure. There was a good ending page that referenced nirvana (the idea not the band) and I read that thing end to end choosing both choices for everything. No page ever sent you to it. It was just a contrivance that you were sent to glance at while flipping through.

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 10 points 3 months ago

Okay that's kind of amazing, you found an easter egg in an out of bounds area.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 32 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Haha, fuck fate. I have free will!

Throws the book in the fireplace

[-] debil@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

The predetermined universe smiles when the book's fate is being fulfilled.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

what does it look like when a universe smiles?

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[-] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

book lands in fireplace open on page 72

[-] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago

But the book only has 71 pages

[-] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 16 points 3 months ago

Pg 72 is in volume 2.

If you are interested, buy volume 2. Else, buy volume 2.

[-] needthosepylons@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

One cauld rightfully argue "determination" and "predetermination" are wildly different concepts. The comic is wrong on this. But let's go page 72 anyway

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

I'm taking my towel to page 42. You can't fool me!

[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Quiet. Accept your servitude to propaganda and conditioning.

[-] needthosepylons@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

You could have stopped at (universal) servitude. But yeah, they say it all becomes clear p.72!

[-] comrade19@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

Hell yeah how good is determinism

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

That is yet to be determined.

[-] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UebSfjmQNvs - Kurzgesagt - Lemmings will reee optimistic greenwashing.

Can Free Will be Saved in a Deterministic Universe? PBS Space Time - And it's counter argument page https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2020/11/15/free-will-video/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/free-will-is-only-an-illusion-if-you-are-too/ - I'm glad to the coincidence regarding see my semantics point regarding 'Free will' being a somewhat outdated term being a key point in this article.

[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 11 points 3 months ago

And yet I can speak about my consciousness, and therefore deliver information to you based on an experience which can't be physically observed or quantified.

Perhaps the universe is naught but a comforting illusion.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

deliver information to you based on an experience which can’t be physically observed or quantified

I'm not sure if "Black Box of electro-chemistry" is necessarily the same as "Non-determinism".

That said, we contain the ability to observe and react to our surroundings which causes a large and complex web of interactions that aren't trivial to map or anticipate.

That unpredictablity is what we ultimately define as freedom.

[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 5 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I was curious if anyone would catch that. My comment doesn't necessarily ensure free will, it just rejects a physicalist model of reality as a basis for determinism. You can have neutral monism and still have determinism.

I was just trying to embrace the spirit of shitposting idealist takes in response to shitty physicalist takes. 🤭

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

I was just trying to embrace the spirit of shitposting

🫡

In that case, carry on.

[-] WldFyre@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Neutral monism just looks like "we have to have souls because the science is uncomfortable to me" but for atheists lol

[-] brrt@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That said, we contain the ability to observe and react to our surroundings which causes a large and complex web of interactions that aren't trivial to map or anticipate.

That unpredictablity is what we ultimately define as freedom.

How does higher uncertainty of my choices achieving what I strive for raise the perception of freedom of said choice?

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

You could be a Boltzmann Brain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain

Of course, from my perspective, I would be the Boltzmann brain and you would be my dream.

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[-] spread@programming.dev 9 points 3 months ago

Would be nice if there was a hidden ending on page 57

[-] poke@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago

I am disappointed in how long it took me to see the joke, but its a good one! I'm gonna have to go with page 72.

[-] Tamkish@programming.dev 6 points 3 months ago

This reminds me of that one riddler comic (Found it, batman black and white #5 "The Riddle", here's a reddit link since that was the easiest to find https://www.reddit.com/r/batman/comments/tn8b68/ )

It's a creative and very short choose your own adventure and I highly recommend it

[-] aviation_hydrated@infosec.pub 5 points 3 months ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

The deterministic universe may one day force you to visit your local library.

[-] aviation_hydrated@infosec.pub 5 points 3 months ago

I am okay with that, although not sure if I would have another opinion under different circumstances

[-] Findmysec@infosec.pub 5 points 3 months ago

Which book is this?

[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

*turns to page 60 like a boss

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[-] keiichii12@ani.social 3 points 3 months ago

Relevant pbs spacetime video (discovery about microtubules relevant to theory of quantum consciousness)

[-] recklessengagement@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Can you agree but also conclude that this knowledge has no real impact on our lives, and therefore our agency is preserved?

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