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		jokoon on April 27, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The clockwork universe: is free will an illusion? Some people will argue that you are not so exceptional, which is the whole thing about the snowflake argument. You share most of your specificities with other homo sapiens. Individualism is a thought system that is centered on liberalism. Watch "the century of the self".

coldtea on April 27, 2021 [–]

>You share most of your specificities with other homo sapiens.

Sure, but that's neither here, nor there - and totally orthogonal to the discussion.

Free will is about expressing the self, not about the self being unique.

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