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The Shadow of Action - by Dawson Eliasen - Orbis Tertius

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Free will and the two realities

Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim. —Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses What’s it like to do something intentionally? When you choose a movie to watch, how much power do you have over that choice? To what extent is your choice actually the result of things completely outside of your control?—like your preferences, your mood at the time, the prevalence of that movie in whatever setting you’re browsing movies, the way the poster or the trailer stokes your intrigue, and what you may or may not have heard about the movie already? If you try…

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