At its core,

[OngBonga]

Alien hand syndrome is interesting as fuck. It's like a battle between free will and something else.

I agree with you that free will is less intuitive than determinism. But that doesn't change the fact that free will is the more appealing belief. I guess it's an almost religious thing to me... I'm gonna need pretty convincing proof before I accept what I consider a depressing worldview.

[wufwugy]

Alien hand syndrome is interesting as fuck. It's like a battle between free will and something else.

I agree with you that free will is less intuitive than determinism. But that doesn't change the fact that free will is the more appealing belief. I guess it's an almost religious thing to me... I'm gonna need pretty convincing proof before I accept what I consider a depressing worldview.

If you'll indulge me, here's a portion of what I'm working on now:

I agree with the framework presented in the abstract here: http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html . My personal interpretation of reality is that (1) and (2) are not likely; therefore I think the probability that we are living in an ancestor simulation converges on 1 (without actually hitting 1). If we are living in an ancestor simulation, it may be necessarily the case there is a mode of being by which we become sufficiently advanced enough to create our own ancestor simulations. This would be a mode of being in mimicry of the ancestor simulators. As far as I can tell, religious ideas, particularly ones of the archetypal meta-heroes like Christ or Marduk or Buddha -- which are biologically embedded into the human psyche (by way of evolutionary selection in the dominance hierarchy) -- may be the modes of being for the human portion of species advancement that achieve the state of the ancestors.