Free will, scientifically — no free will, just this huge deterministic universe. Free will, philosophically — no free will, just a language problem. Free will, spiritually — no free will, no one to “have it” in the first place.
Month: July 2018
You Are Terribly Superstitious And You Don’t Even Know It
What is superstitiousness? You think it’s “seeing a black cat, thinking it’s a bad omen”. You think it’s stupid. It’s only as stupid as your own collection of cognitive biases. This one is called Post hoc ergo propter hoc. The Post hoc fallacy. Correlation does not imply causation. But you don’t realise it. You …