Sometimes a statement comes along that is so pristine in its lack of coherence, so mind-boggling in its pure, immaculate and flawless freedom from logic, that I just have to stop and call special attention to it. Eigenstate has favored us with such a statement:
If I stipulate for the purposes of argument here that there is no choice and the world is rigidly deterministic, “moral” and “social” are just as meaningful and carry the same semantic freight as if it were otherwise. Empathy in a completely deterministic universe is just as much a moral dynamic as a empathy in universe with “libertarian free will”, allowing for the moment that that concept is not logically incoherent.
Second quote of the day from eigenstate (he’s on a roll):
There’s no contradiction between “choice” and “wholly upwardly determined”