Comments by "chocomalk" (@chocomalk) on "Everything Is Made of Quarks—Why Are Only Some Things Conscious? | Max Tegmark | Big Think" video.

  1. Hard determinism says we have no free will. We are basically effects of an initial cause. Of course this is based on evidence at hand IE the big bang being the initiator(cause). Sure from a purely logical basis it makes sense and is almost undeniable. That being said, the amount of awareness we have, our ability to process it and our subjective natures make it really difficult to say "what is" on such a scale. What happened before expansion occurred is a mystery. I mostly fall into the hard determinism camp from a logical viewpoint, the only reason I have to dispute is purely anecdotal. I actually discovered the idea of hard determinism 20 years before hearing about it, during an acid trip in my youth, I saw it like an irresistible wave passing through people, one to another causing their actions. Perceiving this as something horrible, I "removed" myself from the flow of things, symbolically of course, by moving to the other side of the room away from people. This broke the flow and people not only realized it immediately but did not like it one bit. All at once 10 or so people literally freaked out at me for changing the flow of things. haha. Does this mean there is wiggle room? Maybe. Maybe there is something in the pie that has determined that there needs to be more wiggle room? And if so does that make it actual? lol?
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  2. Interesting, the more I think about it, the more I feel it is a combination of the two...paradoxically enough lol.
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