Contesting Determinism (Robert Wright & Oliver Burkeman)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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Free Will Scepticism - The Illusion of the Self
i loved your book and read it more than once, because i went back to it fo a sort of structural inspiration when i wus figure otrit lo. If you just focus on the idea bot, what is to be gained from seeing through the conventional notion of the self? There's free in that. In that kind of life, you are freer to relate to people without the shackles of entanglement with ego. You arefreer to let go of a sort of tribalism, free er to love. Probably, like creative work flows more freely when you are not entangled withe,. When you are not identified with certain kinds of egoic needs. And there is this
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