Believing that it's the answer, regardless of whether or not it is true, is reductionist and defeatist. An answer for what, to what end?
I'd rather have more "meat computers" around that at least have a shot at being meat-programmed (or whatever you prefer to call it) to want and to strive for something better. Hard determinism may feel soothing in a nihilistic way for some, but the implications of the message (and the dehumanizing hostility often built right into it, offputting to most people) are incidentally likely to reduce the number of people that would have otherwise been persuaded (or predetermined, whatever) to strive for a better path to begin with, even if it were true.
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Believing that it's the answer, regardless of whether or not it is true, is reductionist and defeatist. An answer for what, to what end?
I'd rather have more "meat computers" around that at least have a shot at being meat-programmed (or whatever you prefer to call it) to want and to strive for something better. Hard determinism may feel soothing in a nihilistic way for some, but the implications of the message (and the dehumanizing hostility often built right into it, offputting to most people) are incidentally likely to reduce the number of people that would have otherwise been persuaded (or predetermined, whatever) to strive for a better path to begin with, even if it were true.