• sacredbirdman@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    Depends on how you define meaning. I find meaning in experiencing the life. It may be predetermined or have random elements in it but the experience is unique to me.

    Anyway, given all we know about us and the universe I haven’t heard a coherent proposal of how free will could work. So, until there’s good evidence to convince me otherwise … I can’t help but believe it doesn’t exist.

    • thesmokingman@programming.dev
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      9 months ago

      Right! Without free will the only meaning you have is whatever you were preordained to have. Even your sense of meaning is just a predefined firing of neurons set into motion when it all began. This conversation, my response to you, your response to me, it’s all just something we have no control over unless our brains were wired back when to believe that infinitely small sub(infinite)atomic particles colliding is any form of meaning.

    • jotaemei@awful.systems
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      7 months ago

      So, until there’s good evidence to convince me otherwise … I can’t help but believe it doesn’t exist.

      Is it other people’s jobs to bring this evidence to you?