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Originally Posted by Bulgaroctonus
My own philosophical beliefs lean towards the physical sciences. I view myself as a complex physical system, incapable of free will and morally irresponsible. This is close to a nihilistic (belief in nothing) view. I am a fleeting moment in a chain reaction that reaches back for infinity as far as I know.
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Why do all the particles interact the way they do? It is in their nature. Just like it is in the nature of the particles in our brain to allow for free will. Your problem is over.
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My basic personal anxiety has often been self's attempt to be real in the face of a momentous realization and truth: my self does not existseperately as an entity but is instead a construct of energy and matter.
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You accept two opposite premises in the same paragraph.