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humans are like plants

I thought I agreed by summarizing what you said. I misunderstood.

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it is impossible for most humans, since most humans aren't very good at judging their own condition.

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humans are like plants

Humans can be astonishingly stupid given our great potential for intelligence.

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It's also impossible to prove free will, at least with our current understanding of the universe. Quantum physics might hold the key to solving this.

However I'm afraid of bringing that topic up lest I unwittingly entice the bane of logic reasoning to spam this thread with fractals and golden ratios.

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don't know about quantum mechanics or fractals, but humans kinda suck at knowing reality unless it benefits them. they cherry pick the parts of reality they want to hold onto.

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humans are like plants

Oh, I'm of the firm belief that Spatial will turn up sooner or later if we don't stay clear of tantalizing topics such as these.

Or mayhaps you were referring to something else.

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humans are like plants

That depends on your views on determinism.

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"You're sacrificing common sense just so you can spark a debate."
I wouldn't really call certain aspects of my sense common. It's not really a matter of "sacrifice" so much as "difference in views".

"Regardless if an option is pre-existing or not, that wouldn't dispel a conscious choice from being one."
It stops it from really being a choice.

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humans are like plants

"To me, life resembles a game of cards."

I kinda' see it the same.

"All the free will philosophy talk is confusing for me."

Newtonian physics imply that the world is fully deterministic and that there is no such thing as free will. At all. The world pushes us and we react, like a rock, but it feels to us like we're making choices. Quantum physics on the other hand open up the possibility of us actually having some kind of free will.

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To me, life resembles a game of cards. You're dealt some cards, but it's up to you to decide how to play them.

I share this view. We are restricted by a great number of things, both genetic and environmental, but that is not to say that we do not have control over our own actions within these constraints. 

We all make choices.

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