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because free will as an illusion is a far harder concept to grasp and integrate than mortality, so the proportion of folks who actually manage that will always be minuscule.
I would add philosophy and quantum physics to the list of things that wouldn't exist if we didn't believe we had agency.
The second is refuted rather inescapably by special relativity; frames of reference certainly exist in which your future is in somebody else's past, strongly implying the future already exists, and that the perception of 'now' is a figment of awareness.
There is no observable proof that the future exists, or at least you haven't shown us any, so we live our lives as if it didn't exist, wether it exists or not. Both realities result in the same behaviour.
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greentricky
You don't support either of those assertions... The first I doubt, because free will as an illusion is a far harder concept to grasp and integrate than mortality, so the proportion of folks who actually manage that will always be minuscule.
The second is refuted rather inescapably by special relativity; frames of reference certainly exist in which your future is in somebody else's past, strongly implying the future already exists, and that the perception of 'now' is a figment of awareness.
The universe doesn't provide free lunches, but it has some pretty snazzy tricks up its sleeve to balance the books...