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Socile t1_j9i9tpn wrote

Reply to comment by mojoegojoe in Often mischaracterized as a rather debaucherous, hedonistic philosophy, Epicureanism actually focuses on the removal of pain and anxiety from our lives, and champions a calm ‘philosophy as therapy’ approach in pursuit of life’s highest pleasure: mental tranquility. by philosophybreak

Sorry, you lost me.

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mojoegojoe t1_j9icu2a wrote

Take a snoop at this. https://youtu.be/_Y8HgmOoLCM

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Socile t1_j9n1nk6 wrote

This doesn’t say anything about free will. Are you trying to surmise that there are free-will-endowing agents at scales smaller than we can currently examine?

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mojoegojoe t1_j9n5dk3 wrote

Not necessarily, just that that's the interface at which they would act iif that were the case. But by definition its not what we can currently examine - it's what our model of physics defines elementary by the energy mass defintion.

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