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Agree wholeheartedly. I'm trying to describe transcending the realisation of determinism, in the sense of not getting bogged down by it, to then go about living a good human life.
Cognitive effort is inevitable. It would take a special kind of 'person who fails the psychopath test', somehow lacking urges/feelings, to be able to switch off completely and fade into nothingness.
I think it's important to first accept the deterministic nature of the self (of one's self?), in the sense that we are an object determined by the interaction of atoms, and through our wetware is created the subject/our subjectivity. In the absence of AI we can already pass through this phase of realisation/acceptance (the nausea of the realisation of being an object).
To the question; so what do I do now?, we have the answer that our lives and behaviour, while in a sense deterministic, are also 'inevitable', in the important sense that regardless of any realisation, I will still go on living, responding to my 'subjective' urges/needs, will continue identify and attempt... (read more)
Continental moments are great. I feel like that's the end game once we transcend science and analysis.