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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2006-09-01 09:32 am

Free Will

Following an interesting discussion I had here I'm intrigued to see what other people think about Free Will:
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[identity profile] cangetmad.livejournal.com 2006-09-01 10:08 am (UTC)(link)
We sort of agree - I don't think it's possible to say perceptions are "flawed". They just are what they are. They alter things, certainly, and for the most part they do it for a reason - to conserve energy expended in perceiving (all that stuff about "seeing" actually involving a lot of outward projection from memory and presumption), or to conserve memory space (systematically discarding the actual words of a conversation in favour of remembering the gist). That, to me, as it relates to the equally objective reality of human capacity, isn't a flaw, but a fact of interaction.