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Does free will exist? An examination of what it means to think freely First, we must define what free will is. The way I understand it, free will is the ability to process information, and make decisions without any involuntary external influence. However, if there is no initial influence, then, by which criteria will you be able to process information and make fully voluntary decisions? Without existing mental pathways, how will you be able to form thought processes?…
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Death rationalization, and a meaning for life: Existential philosophy (...ends on a positive note) You’ve heard it a million times: what makes life meaningful and valuable is its ephemeral finiteness. Supposedly, life is more valuable when it is in short supply, right? This is what the most basic law of economics and human interaction, the **law of scarcity**, states. Scarcity dictates that the rarer something is, the more valuable it is. For example, if gold were in…