Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom

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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom to me is a really interesting study into the way in which we use counterfactual thinking. We might represent what we've done in a much better light than what like it revealed something deep about character that I think would be surprising to people. In this case it's interesting like I the stuff that strikes me as most plausible has nothing to do with freedom and responsibility.

Is character destiny, or can fluky decisions or tiny shifts in weather patterns fundamentally change who we are? Does the existence or non-existence of alternate universes have any bearing on freedom and responsibility? David and Tamler conclude their discussion of Ted Chiang’s “Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom” along with another very short piece by Chiang called “What’s Expected of Us” that was first published in Nature.

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