Gwynne Michele

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This is what I wrote about it on Facebook last night while I was working on my paper:

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This trend is absolutely fascinating. I'm watching the anon accounts like boomers watched soap operas back in the day. Still have not posting anything on @superanon even though I could cuz it would be so obvious it was me 🤣

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While pain is often a driver of change, it's not the *only* driver of it. Sure, a lot of people only make changes when things are so bad they can no longer tolerate it, but a lot of that comes from societies being more deterministic than probabilistic and conditioning people to just accept the way things are, with individuals still able to *decide* to cultivate the sort of awareness that allows us to better take advantage of probabilities and improve things before pain becomes the motivator. I think "free will" exists on a spectrum, and I also have an intuition that the way Western philosophy frames the concept is precisely *why* we think it's a problem to be solved.

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My counter argument is that Western philosophy tries to oversimplify reality into maxims that don't end up holding up over time. Like the whole free will vs determinism debate is never going to find an answer because it's not either/or, it's both. The Universe has some deterministic qualities and some probabilistic qualities, and humans have metacognition - we can think about our thinking and change our thinking - that lets us lean more into the probabilistic to overcome the deterministic aspects of reality, and THAT is what free will is.

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It's interesting timing for me. It's not that I left, I've just been swamped with an intense few weeks of school which has started to ease up this week with a full-week break next week so I can dive backin.

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I am fascinated the first AI-made token shares a name with my Goddess.

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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.

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We're, as far as we know, the only creatures with metacognition. We are conditioned by our environments and experiences as all animals are, but we have that added ability to condition ourselves, if we so choose, and that's where our free will lies. But we first must make the choice to actually engage that will, and honestly, a lot of people don't because they're locked in systemic oppression and don't have the cognitive bandwidth to engage in the sort of reflective thinking about values that truly engages that free will.

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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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I'm not sure it is deleterious. I think it's experimenting to see what can come next, and sometimes, experiments look really weird.

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I've had a bit of luck with creating tokens on wow.xyz, too. Still in an observation mode to see what's happening with these new social AI coins, but it's quite fascinating.

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Let them eat $CAKE https://wow.xyz/0xe7cFb8302964F2E37E74Ef588ABCa16F9ed439e3

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I've been working on figuring out the vibe on Bluesky. Wrote and posted this article on my Substack and shared it there. Had a new Substack subscriber within minutes. Facebook and Twitter/X suppress links. Bluesky and Farcaster do not. Decentralized social media for the win. https://open.substack.com/pub/gwynnemichele/p/marx-wasnt-an-anti-capitalist?r=18scr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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But why does it work though? It looks like marble!

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Yep, probably bots trying to play the buy low/sell high game. The real money for humans is in the fees earned for creating the tokens the bots are trading. Haven't had much brain space to play with it, so hoping I'm not too late to the game!

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@clanker please create a token $Curiosity called Curious and use this image. The description should be "curiouser and curiouser."

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Weekly AMA! It's exactly what it sounds like. Ask me anything. About content creation. About my weird life as a self-vowed hermit nun devoted to a made up deity. About going back to college to finish a bachelor's degree in middle age not for a career pivot, but for fun. About anything you've seen me cast about. Or really, about anything at all.

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Claiming my @socialtoken airdrop and crediting @verafaye with my social airdrop because wherever I go, she follows me just to see what's up and does brilliant with it in her own unique way <3

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That's particularly fascinating to me considering I live in devotion with a made up deity I call Paradox, something I've talked openly about here.

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Yes, I've been watching them a bit! Fascinating!

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