Fate for most of us is hugely influenced by the place we born in.

Interesting passage by Peter Ulric Tse

The circle of being-in-the-world

do you also have the impression that 70% of anti-free will arguments go like this?

As a believer in Nietzsche-Hegelian schools of thought with Machiavellian influences this really spoke to me

Novak blind ranks his Top 5 tennis players

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Will philosophy be never-ending

Homunculus fallacy does not show that substance dualism is false

Where do you draw the line, free-will adherents?

CMV: Colonizing Mars is a fundamentally good idea

CMV: Capitalism and the "class war" is over, the rich won

People who support Ukrainian peace deal, what do you do if Russia invades another country next year?

CMV: Putin will invade another European country within the next four years, and the U.S. will enable or excuse it.

It's hard to see how multiple options are truly possible at the moment of a choice.

Are we able to identify, with precision, both temporally and spatially, as well as ontologically, a cause? To distinguish it clearly from other phenomena and other causes (or effects)? To say, "this is a cause X, these are its boundaries, not a millimeter and an instant beyond"?

The Greater European Union

Where does your trust in physics come from?

What is so controversial about the idea that our actions are determined by our biology, hormones, childhood experiences, and life circumstances?

The Hard Truth: Free Will is Just a Comforting Delusion

People who were born in the late 19th century/early 20th century and grew old got to witness insanely drastic societal & technological changes. People who were born several centuries beforehand and grew old didn't get that same privilege.

What are the geopolitical consequences of climate change, imminent ecological collapse, and primary resource scarcity for massive, resource-rich but sparsely defended regions (like Greenland or Canada) and their relationship with resource-hungry superpowers?

What's your Warden/Hawke up too when Rook is fighting the gods?

Donald Trump says he thinks US will annex Greenland | US News

CMV: Science may have reached (or be very close to) its limits within the current "mind-indepedent description of reality" paradigm