My evening is smoking joints and working on a paper on the neuroethics of free will.

Which is just one of the many areas where Western philosophy gets locked into black and white thinking about determinism vs free will.

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yep. it’s like motion. is the train arriving at the station, or the station arriving to the train? depends on your perspective

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really crazy this has perplexed people for so long

Because they're locked in that rigid either/or, ultimate singular truth paradigm.  Rigid black and white thinking rooted in a sort of egoism that demands reality conform to their conditioned ideals of rationality.