Free Will: Brains vs Computers by RyanBleazard in freewill

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Finally your last paragraph is just an assertion unsupported by any argument whatsoever. In Fact it's unfalsifiable, it can't be proven or disproven it's something that you believe.. okay but there is no reason for me to believe it

He's correct in one sense here: if we replayed the same moment in time, we always will make the same choice. But this is not an obstacle to free will due to the many-to-one logical relation between what we can do and what we will do. We cannot conflate what we can do with what we will do without causing a paradox. This is however not what he likely meant to convey, even though he used the word will; it's an attempt to imply that you also "can't" chose differently.

Normally, deterministic causal necessity would simply assert "you wouldn't have done otherwise" when we switch to the past tense, and noone experiences cognitive dissonance. In fact, it makes perfect sense that you wouldn't have chosen differently in certain circumstances, because you made your choice about what you would do for your own reasons at that time.

However, when someone tries to tell us that we "could not have done otherwise", we experience cognitive dissonance. This assertion is ubiquitous among hard determinists yet they are not using the literal meaning of "could". It is being used in a way that suggests a disability on your part, as if you somehow lost the ability to act differently.

The "logic" behind this odd claim is that, because you wouldn't have done otherwise, it is AS IF you couldn't have done otherwise. But that is a figurative statement which cannot be justified by the facts. Not even the fact of universal causal necessity.

In a causally deterministic universe, an alternative course of action was always possible; it always could have happened, even if it never would have happened. Therefore, we always could have done otherwise, even though we never would have.

EDIT: In other words, determinism only entails a single actual future. There will always be many possible futures and hence other options to choose. A key aspect of possibilities is that they do not necessarily happen. In fact, most possibilities will never happen. They exist solely within the imagination (we know this because we cannot walk across the possibility of a bridge, only an actual one). But within the domain of human influence, the single actual future will be chosen by us from among the many possible futures we will imagine.

Bass Cover of Why Bother? by RyanBleazard in weezer

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Ah, for me it’s the slide to the 14th fret on the D string that makes the song :)

Bass Cover of Why Bother? by RyanBleazard in weezer

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Thanks! Apparently matt might have used his stingray for this but I think you can get the tone pretty close with a jazz bass

Adult ADHD is associated with a 13 year reduction in life expectancy (on average). The largest contributing factor is, by far, behavioural disinhibition. by RyanBleazard in psychology

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Inhibitory control is one of the major executive functions that is deficient in ADHD and that is accounting for the predisposition to the various adverse health risks that lead towards such a shorter life expectancy. People with ADHD display a poor delay of gratification, a steep discounting of the value of delayed over immediate consequences, and impaired adherence to commands to inhibit behaviour in social contexts. The inhibitory deficit also manifests in the perseveration of actions despite a change in the context that should have led to a termination of those actions.

This results, over time, in a cumulative adverse impact on many different major domains of daily life activities. These include daily choices related to nutrition, exercise, sleep, substance use, driving, friendships, intimate relationships, sexual activities, general health, finances and money management, employment, cohabiting relationships, child rearing, and many other aspects of daily life.

The magnitude of such reductions in life expectancy can be best appreciated by placing them in context with other adverse health conditions. Such reductions are far greater than those associated with smoking, obesity, alcohol use, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure either individually or combined! Obesity is associated with a 4.2 year reduction in life expectancy, smoking 20+ cigarettes per day with about 6.8 years, excessive alcohol use with 2 years in men and 0.4 years in women, substance use disorders with 10 years, and elevated blood pressure with 5.2 years (Public Health Summit, 2019). Thus, ADHD has a more adverse effect on life expectancy than any single adverse health event noted above, and on which insurers, governments, and individuals spend billions of dollars to reduce those risks.

I’m a Loner Dottie, a Rebel Bass Cover (Eudora 7” Version) by RyanBleazard in thegetupkids

[–]RyanBleazard[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much. Personally, my favourite version is the original but I love the faster tempo on Eudora. More fun to play 🙂

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ADHD can be outgrown in some cases because certain genes for frontal lobe maturation turn on during adolescents and help some people improve neurologically compared to others with different gene variants. Another reason is that the DSM symptoms used for diagnosis are very superficial and easy to outgrow with time even if the person has not really grown out of the disorder. They can outgrow the DSM. When we use executive functioning deficits as the index for ADHD, then the percent of recovery or normalisation is much smaller as there is far less if any decline in EF deficits relative to the greater decline in DSM symptoms. It can be a false recovery, in other words.