Venting Determinism is depressing

[Enju]

Over the past week, i’ve been pondering over determinism. Whether or not all my actions are pre-determined. The blackpill already touches base level of determinism, such as our genetic makeup determining how we’ll be treated by others and our success with women.

But that’s not what’s causing me to feel this sense of existential dread. It’s being aware that my every single action is a result of my brain and past experiences. Why am I making this thread? Because of cortisol being released in my brain, thus making this thread allows me to vent and feel less stressed. Why do I find a certain genre of anime interesting? Because of past experiences and brain chemistry.

I guess I could just live like I did before knowing about determinism, and it’d make no difference. And i’m sure determinism isn’t 100% true, but it holds weight. Im more inclinded to say i believe in compatibilism.

 

[autistic_tendencies]

Determinism is sort of legit but you can sway your direction based on your mental attitude and thinking , hypnotize your subconscious

 

[Enju]

Determinism is sort of legit but you can sway your direction based on your mental attitude and thinking , hypnotize your subconscious

Wouldn't the very act of attempting to hypnotize your subconscious be predetermined since it's a part of a chain of causes? I guess if you agree with compatibilism, you'd be acting on your own reason.

 

[autistic_tendencies]

Wouldn't the very act of attempting to hypnotize your subconscious be predetermined since it's a part of a chain of causes? I guess if you agree with compatibilism, you'd be acting on your own reason.

Maybe it is all pre determined
I’ve read that basically life is looking for you
You rarely have to put effort in finding anything

 

[Enju]

Maybe it is all pre determined
I’ve read that basically life is looking for you
You rarely have to put effort in finding anything

I feel like a spectator in my own body. Every decision in the future has already been made for me

 

[autistic_tendencies]

I feel like a spectator in my own body. Every decision in the future has already been made for me

We can’t control our circumstances but we can always control our reaction to them

 

[bell]

I don't think it changes much. Even if my own defeatism is a composite fact of my being, paring down levels of abstraction doesn't change the outcome, the "model" which charts a causal attribution doesn't change, if that makes sense. I don't know, I never thought too deeply about it for the same reason that I don't think too deeply about politics. I could imagine becoming an optimist under certain conditions. It's just that those conditions haven't manifested themselves yet, so if circumstance dictates that I rot, then I shall rot. The world is not my oyster.

 

[Asgard]

Every single thing from the smallest to the biggest one (physical dimensionally speaking) appears to follow a script in my opinion, or at least the animated biological beings we are surrounded with in this rock planet. I believe this is not a coincidence and we indeed live in some kind of simulation, or god knows what might be behind the borders of this so-called "universe" spectrum.

For in the end there is no us and them, no human and Other. We are them, and they are us. And all of this has happened before, and will happen again.

As a side note, I do believe humans descend from another species that formerly settled on this planet after having experienced an exodus from their original homeworld. Battlestar Galactica has greatly contributed for the beliefs I currently hold.

 

[Enju]

I don't think it changes much. Even if my own defeatism is a composite fact of my being, paring down levels of abstraction doesn't change the outcome, the "model" which charts a causal attribution doesn't change, if that makes sense. I don't know, I never thought too deeply about it for the same reason that I don't think too deeply about politics. I could imagine becoming an optimist under certain conditions. It's just that those conditions haven't manifested themselves yet, so if circumstance dictates that I rot, then I shall rot. The world is not my oyster.

Thats a good way to look at it.

 

[twojei]

Over the past week, i’ve been pondering over determinism. Whether or not all my actions are pre-determined. The blackpill already touches base level of determinism, such as our genetic makeup determining how we’ll be treated by others and our success with women.

But that’s not what’s causing me to feel this sense of existential dread. It’s being aware that my every single action is a result of my brain and past experiences. Why am I making this thread? Because of cortisol being released in my brain, thus making this thread allows me to vent and feel less stressed. Why do I find a certain genre of anime interesting? Because of past experiences and brain chemistry.

I guess I could just live like I did before knowing about determinism, and it’d make no difference. And i’m sure determinism isn’t 100% true, but it holds weight. Im more inclinded to say i believe in compatibilism.

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