/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12760971
>But when I’m awake I feel like I have free will over my thoughts.
Emphasis on the word feel. There are two options: your thoughts are based on electric signals and chemistry (the scientific view) or they are based on the will of a deity (the religious view). Let's add a third option: they are completely fucking random (the chaotic view) In any case, your thoughts are predetermined or random. What exactly are you choosing on your free will? How is your "will" not based on earlier events and the laws of physics, none of which you are currently controlling?

I do agree with you that it feels like I control my thoughts. But with reasoning, I can conclude that this is just an illusion.

>>12747727
I can confirm this. In a way, Last Thursdayism is correct, but it's not Thursday that the universe was created on. It's November 19, 2016, 10am GMT+0.

If you take enough LSD, you travel to that time and see for yourself that nothing really changes, you just exist in that moment with memories of the past and anticipation for the future, neither of which ever really happened.

>>12714094
You didn't choose how the electrons were set up the first moment you existed, and you didn't choose the laws of physics that they follow. What exactly DO you ever freely choose?