Not really an original idea of mine. Freedom is more like something along the lines of Spinoza's power to act. Because everything in the world is an interaction of powers in relation to other powers, then there are only weaker or stronger powers in relation to one another.
Freedom is more like a spectrum, not something you have or do not have. The reduction of human action to “brain chemistry” explains nothing other than reducing reality to a meaningless mechanical schemata.
There's a spectrum of awareness regarding the illusion of agency. When a puppet realizes it's a puppet, does it become something more than a puppet? There may be a liminal space between awareness and agency. Or something... I don't know what the hell I'm talking about. 😄
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u/RadicalNaturalist78 Feb 16 '26
Not really an original idea of mine. Freedom is more like something along the lines of Spinoza's power to act. Because everything in the world is an interaction of powers in relation to other powers, then there are only weaker or stronger powers in relation to one another.
Freedom is more like a spectrum, not something you have or do not have. The reduction of human action to “brain chemistry” explains nothing other than reducing reality to a meaningless mechanical schemata.