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As in... once an object crosses the event horizon, it's light can no longer escape gravity and thus can no longer reach us as the distant observer. For that reason, the object appears "frozen" and stuck still to us at the location immediately prior to event horizon crossing.

I’ve been grateful for his decades of experience and the experience of his hand picked leadership teams these last few years. A set of steady hands at the tiller. They’ve done a remarkable job returning us to normality in otherwise chaotic times. If congress wasn’t so dysfunctional and full of ignorant clowns, we’d surely be even better off than we already are.

You assert this, seemingly without having any knowledge about the way your mind functions and how chemo-electricity is making those decisions before you even “think” them. You seem to have convinced yourself that the post-dictive narrative the language centers in your brain created AFTER the decision event occurred was the event itself. It's not. It’s just a story you tell yourself. Experience, not will. Whether free or something else, it’s just the outcome of chemistry.

How so? Will you please provide an example? You seem to be suggesting some supernatural capability beyond our neurobiology.

I'm about 25 in mine

One point that some are trying to remind us of (rightfully so) is that the hundreds (thousands, likely?) of infants and children and pregnant women and nursing mothers and farming fathers and otherwise peaceful Palestinians in Gaza are just as dead when they die by rocket fire as when meeting their maker thanks to a blade or bullet. I see you beat me to the same point.

I'm not aware that Biden had surgury to alter his image. Sounds like one of those false claims that so quickly gains traction and spreads like wildfire across social media. Regardless, one thing which is already here is Digitally altering apparent age. Insta-filter on video, real-time. Commercials with Biden in his 30s looking young and vigorous coming soon to a screen near you... (though, if we're being honest, it's far more likely we'll see it first with Trump since he's so vain and insecure). This is more about optics than medical need. He trips sometimes, as do we all. When I trip, everyone after laughing thinks, "Ooops... happens to us all!" When Biden trips, they think, "Jesus that guy's old," even though it's a fairly common thing to happen to humans. "Make no mistake" is literally how they have to operate today to avoid being misconstrued and meme'd.

We appear to be in violent agreement.

The things which are the result of chemical interactions, all of which occur prior to conscious awareness of them, you mean? It's not my intent to redefine anything, only to explain it with knowledge rooted in how our minds work. As we can't make choices and IMO only post-dictively apply a narrative pretending that we have, I suggest we simply call it "experience" and not "will," as it's most certainly not "free" given my framing of the issue.

Solve them? They define me.

National polls don’t vote in presidential elections. Individuals within individual states do. It’ll likely come down to ~500 people in Wisconsin (or some similar scale event to happened in Florida when GWB got elected by the SCOTUS). Microtargeting is have macro effects.

That election was very long ago. Don’t blame the children for the mistakes of the parent. Hamas does need to be eradicated, but the Palestinian people are not Hamas.

A point to potentially reflect upon is that too many right now are conflating Hamas with Palestinians, and that’s no more valid than conflating Iraqis with ISIS. The children dying right now didn’t vote for Hamas 16 years ago, nor has anybody living there the last decade plus.

Monolithic one dimensional labels do a disservice to my actual thinking around this. I don’t align with some crowd. I come at the subject along my own path. But yes, I’m complicated. Appreciate the compliment.

Perhaps, but I’ve already earlier mentioned it doesn’t appear to be free so it strikes me as similarly useless. No. Choice implies freedom to do otherwise, which for reasons already noted I reject.

Not if you believe adding qualifiers like “restricted” or “conditioned” in front of the term “will” is an any way useful here

If every thought we have and every “decision” we make is just the outcome of chemical interactions which all occur before even becoming conscious or aware of them in the parts of our minds most commonly associated with “self,” well then I don’t suppose it matters whether some subset of them get classified as restricted or conditioned or whatever as they’re ALL restricted by the local configuration of the “thinker” and the basic laws of physics and chemistry.

Modal-mu (μ). Lambda-mu (μ). Google and wiki, they got you.

It seems redundant to carve out humans from the universe more broadly. We are components of that universe itself acting deterministically. Perhaps not a relevant point, but something I considered upon reading your post. We are the universe expressing itself as a human being for a little while. No need for that 2nd point, really.

You’re either unwilling or unable then to respond to the actual discussion taking place bc, what? You have hurt feelings and thin skin? Okay, whatever.

And AFAIK we’re talking here about free will in humans, not the technology underlying AI All you’ve done is restate your assertion. MJk asked how you knew. Would you like another try?

But hardly still a mystery. Some of us seem to comprehend those processes better than others.

This is a strange conclusion. Of course it is. There's still more to learn, but it's hardly an "unresolved mystery," and hasn't been for many decades. This is a nice summary, representative also of my stance. +1

Oh, so you’re the one.

I wasn’t describing trying to influence an outcome. I described being able to predict it in advance with a meaningful degree of accuracy.