davidauz

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Make Colossal stop messing with the mammoth and instead bring us back the Giant Sloth!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Never get bitten by mosquitoes man.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

WAKE UP MR FREEMAN

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

you forgot the next pandemic

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All correct! But don't forget our friend "Pinco Pallo"! 😉

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My name is Earl

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

As an Italian, I can assure you that the structure of our government is good, the Constitution is top-notch, and the whole system is a masterpiece of art.

Unfortunately, the entire thing is plagued by politicians, so it is falling apart.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, first things first, it is not a "simple" philosophical question. The best minds of humanity have been tackling this problem since forever, and there is still no definitive answer yet.

Ironically, for all the religions since the dawn of time, some kind of evidence for free will has emerged from the frontiers of science. Quantum mechanics, for instance, is based on the fact that at the subatomic level, nothing is known for sure. Therefore, the "initial conditions" issue is no longer true.

Someone with a greater intellect than mine once stated that the quantum nondeterminism underlying the functioning of the human brain could be the key to freeing it from the conundrum of cause and effect. In other words, yes, we have free will. Suggested readings: "The Elegant Universe" by Brian Greene, "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas Hofstadter, "The Book of Job" in the Bible.

Just my 2¢...