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Visceral Adventure's avatar

Maybe it’s worth adding to the ways a chaos agent operates that they might be keen on passing out black pills: create the reality of so much doom that any resistance becomes futile. This defeatist outlook sucks out hope from even the most spiritually inclined in us.

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Yancey Ward's avatar

On the Libets experiment- I am not sure it is well designed or meaningful. I know for a fact that when I made myself a subject a subject of it using the gif above, I became aware that my "decision making" went like this- "I am going to make my decision to flex at 1 o'clock, then I am going to make my decision at 6 o'clock, then at 9 o'clock, etc. In short, I had made the decision before I "made" the decision. What do others of your readers do there?

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