Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So, how’s it going?
It’s a bit of a glass half full vs. half empty / chicken vs. the egg sort of thing.
If one [believes that one lacks free will], one will behave in an entirely different manner compared to believing that one [does have free will]. So the belief in free will, or lack thereof, will ironically have a massive impact on the course of our lives.
This is the same argument for inflation expectation. If one believes there will be high inflation, one drives inflation by their actions.
Any of the big questions in psychology and philosophy are always difficult; there are always swings in ideas and fashionable ideas…I’m not sure if one lacked the belief in free will; as someone who thinks we do have free will; what or how they would behave.
No, I don’t think so. Living as if you don’t have free will would be impossible, you’d never get anything done. We have to ignore a lot of interesting philosophy in order to function.