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We Are Not Software: David Bentley Hart with Acid Horizon

Acid Horizon

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The Anti-Free Picture

The structure of consciousness is free in a way that mechanism can't reflect. If I knew the disposition of all the particles composing you and your environment last Tuesday, I could have infallibly predicted you be here today. But that's obviously not true because the disposition of my articles would not be moved by an intentional structure. That's the picture of mechanism that underlies these sort of weird reductions of freedom to a behaviorist model or a post-behaviorist, but still behaviorist model. And it has inspired some of the most monstrous evils that can be named in history.

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