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Comment author: lisper 04 March 2016 07:19:01AM *  1 point [-]

we'd both do whatever we're going to do and it wouldn't matter at all!

Exactly right. I live my life as if I'm a classical conscious being with free will even though I know that metaphysically I'm not. It's kind of fun knowing the truth though. It gives me a lot of peace of mind.

I was curious if you are in that camp.

I'm not familiar with Rosenberg so I couldn't say.

Glad to see you are open to at least some of Daniel Dennett's views! (He's a compatibilist, I believe.)

Yes, I think you're right. (That video is actually well worth watching!)

Galilean Universe

Sorry, my bad. I meant it in the sense of Galilean relativity (a.k.a. Newtonian relativity, though Galileo actually thought of it first) where time rather than the speed of light is the same for all observers.