This seems well below the standard often reached here. The writing seems very sloppy and telegraphic… for instance, of course we can say and think ‘Body, I command you not to bleed’! It just won’t do anything.
And: ‘At the same time, there’s a view that we have full control and choice over our actions in a given situation.’ - This seems a bit like a strawman. What’s the view exactly? Who has ever held it? And why should not being able to stop bleeding at will constitute a counterexample? No one normally classifies bleeding as an ‘action’.
And regarding the two ‘takeaways’: you acknowledge that the first is probably not very new or important, and the second, as you’ve summed it up (second last paragraph), seems incredibly trite. We can’t choose to not bleed. OK. Things that seem like choices aren’t always so. OK, that seems true too, but also trite, and the bleeding thing doesn’t seem like an example: who ever thought you could stop bleeding at will, who ever thought there was any choice?
This seems well below the standard often reached here. The writing seems very sloppy and telegraphic… for instance, of course we can say and think ‘Body, I command you not to bleed’! It just won’t do anything.
And: ‘At the same time, there’s a view that we have full control and choice over our actions in a given situation.’ - This seems a bit like a strawman. What’s the view exactly? Who has ever held it? And why should not being able to stop bleeding at will constitute a counterexample? No one normally classifies bleeding as an ‘action’.
And regarding the two ‘takeaways’: you acknowledge that the first is probably not very new or important, and the second, as you’ve summed it up (second last paragraph), seems incredibly trite. We can’t choose to not bleed. OK. Things that seem like choices aren’t always so. OK, that seems true too, but also trite, and the bleeding thing doesn’t seem like an example: who ever thought you could stop bleeding at will, who ever thought there was any choice?
I think Lesswrong can do better than this.