On Monday, I have free will. On Tuesday, I don’t have free will. I feel better on Tuesday, because I choose to get up very early on Monday to go to work and on Tuesday I have to sleep in.
I discount any effect by which someone else seems to control me as dissonance or terror; I define “me” to be the entity which controls me, which need not be the same as the entity which I might think perceives that control. (Terror comes from the thought that I might end up concluding that I am just a perception and cognition engine, without the interaction engine to alter or explore the world independently… or rather, that “I” am not such a thing, but that the perception and cognition isn’t actually “me”, and that terrifies it. I have the strangest waking nightmares.)
On Monday, I have free will.
On Tuesday, I don’t have free will.
I feel better on Tuesday, because I choose to get up very early on Monday to go to work and on Tuesday I have to sleep in.
I discount any effect by which someone else seems to control me as dissonance or terror; I define “me” to be the entity which controls me, which need not be the same as the entity which I might think perceives that control. (Terror comes from the thought that I might end up concluding that I am just a perception and cognition engine, without the interaction engine to alter or explore the world independently… or rather, that “I” am not such a thing, but that the perception and cognition isn’t actually “me”, and that terrifies it. I have the strangest waking nightmares.)