Yondu on Nostr: If we consider the libertarian approach that the individual will is the final and ...
If we consider the libertarian approach that the individual will is the final and ultimate goal and judge, then this could be truth only for the individuals which were raised in the total isolation, starting from the birth in some artificial womb and then having been isolated from any interactions with society during all their life.
This is definitely not the case neither for humans, nor for any of the animals on Earth.
Human is much more than just its body, and the mind of the human consists of the uncountable interactions not only of him (or her) during his life starting from the inception, but of interactions of all of his ancestors with their environment, back to the first living organism on the planet Earth. The latest part of this collective mind journey is usually called the culture, and this is exactly what makes human a human. Not the genes themselves, nor some magic individual free will, but the 4-d environment of the lineage, expressed in all its complexity, and resulted in the formation of this specific individual, with all his or her traits, likes and dislikes, emotions and thoughts. And to consider the individual will in the isolation of this complex environment is the reductionist approach not useful for any practical or theoretical purposes, as all the models which can be build on this basis will probably be very far from the reality.
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"content": "If we consider the libertarian approach that the individual will is the final and ultimate goal and judge, then this could be truth only for the individuals which were raised in the total isolation, starting from the birth in some artificial womb and then having been isolated from any interactions with society during all their life. \n\nThis is definitely not the case neither for humans, nor for any of the animals on Earth. \n\nHuman is much more than just its body, and the mind of the human consists of the uncountable interactions not only of him (or her) during his life starting from the inception, but of interactions of all of his ancestors with their environment, back to the first living organism on the planet Earth. The latest part of this collective mind journey is usually called the culture, and this is exactly what makes human a human. Not the genes themselves, nor some magic individual free will, but the 4-d environment of the lineage, expressed in all its complexity, and resulted in the formation of this specific individual, with all his or her traits, likes and dislikes, emotions and thoughts. And to consider the individual will in the isolation of this complex environment is the reductionist approach not useful for any practical or theoretical purposes, as all the models which can be build on this basis will probably be very far from the reality. ",
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