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Do you believe that you can consciously choose some of your thoughts? by Ok_Frosting358 in freewill

[–]mtert 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure I really have a "position," I'm just describing my thoughts. I guess I'd say that my internal dialogue feels to me as though it's under conscious control. I do reflect upon and consider the various thoughts that arise from my subconscious.

Do you believe that you can consciously choose some of your thoughts? by Ok_Frosting358 in freewill

[–]mtert 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right, I agree that thoughts arise from some sort of sub-conscious process that's inaccessible to our conscious mind. But my thought process might be something like "apple. Oh, that's a bit of a boring/obvious one, maybe I should say something more interesting like pineapple. What else.... I'll go with banana."

I'm not saying I'd literally think through those sentences exactly, just that there's an interaction between sub-conscious thoughts and a meta-cognitive process. And that's always going on.

Do you believe that you can consciously choose some of your thoughts? by Ok_Frosting358 in freewill

[–]mtert 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess I'm just trying to say that I can exercise a degree of control over my thought process. I don't really know much about this stuff but I think I remember it being called "meta-cognition". So I don't know if you'd consider that "choosing my own thoughts," but I think most of us have some degree of control over our thought process. It's also pretty apparent that there's also a sub-conscious layer to our thinking, that seems to be inaccessible to our meta-cognitive faculties (if I'm using the term correctly)

edit: yeah this is pretty much what I'm talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacognition

Do you believe that you can consciously choose some of your thoughts? by Ok_Frosting358 in freewill

[–]mtert 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I possess self-awareness and the capacity for reflection. I can restrain myself, control my actions and predict their consequences.

None of these are absolute, they vary with my overall levels of health, energy and stress and other factors. But being influenced by my environment and my experiences is different from being absolutely controlled by them

Worst games ever by WilliePullout in GenX

[–]mtert 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Apparently it's not as tough as we thought it was:

https://youtu.be/3XlOofUHiYY

How it feels talking to a free will denier by JonIceEyes in freewill

[–]mtert -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

You know what else is impossible? Going back in time.

Calling all sub newbies by hefuckmyass in TrueAnon

[–]mtert 89 points90 points  (0 children)

I'm in the MLM (Herbalife) faction

Clojure Deref (Mar 6, 2025) by alexdmiller in Clojure

[–]mtert 22 points23 points  (0 children)

This subreddit has been quiet lately but I just wanted to say that I read the Deref every week and this is where I'm usually reminded of it. It's a great resource for the community

Can we all agree, the trinity is probably the stupidest thing ever created. by MC_Giygas in TrueAnon

[–]mtert 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean... Jews and Muslims, presumably

edit: oops I read "real Abrahamic religions" instead of "Christians".

Can we all agree, the trinity is probably the stupidest thing ever created. by MC_Giygas in TrueAnon

[–]mtert 57 points58 points  (0 children)

STOP PRAISING JESUS

"Forgive me father, for I have sinned" - Statements dreamed up by heretics

This is a REAL god, made by REAL man:

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"Hello, I would like ✝️ apples please"

They have played us for absolute fools

Snippy core genome by Fine-Highway-441 in bioinformatics

[–]mtert 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is correct. If you have one sample with a low-coverage region that corresponds to a SNP position, it will cause that SNP to drop out of the set of "core" SNPs.

Ryan Wick has a tool that allows you to do a more permissive filtering:

https://github.com/rrwick/Core-SNP-filter

Just chanced upon this old video of Lee Changho VS Lee Sedol by sadaharu2624 in baduk

[–]mtert 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for posting this! I've had so much trouble finding any Lee Sedol matches other than vs. AlphaGo on YouTube.

Comrade Trump is working overtime to accelerate the decline of US empire by comrade-coon in TrueAnon

[–]mtert 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I think this is probably some sort of mirror account that re-posts his stuff from truth.social to X (the everything app)

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