Exnihiloest wrote:Are you talking about the parapsychologist ?! I hope it was humor, because if she thinks there is the slightest hint of truth in this assumption, it is in fact that she does not think. Didn't she try telepathy?
You must have zapped the work of Suzanne blackmore, because it is one of the big names of the skeptical current ...
Consciousness, through the anticipation that it allows, adds a pre-determinism, a sort of feedback loop like in electronics, except that here the loop is made between what is expected to happen, and the present, in order to determine the future. This has always been done since man is man, I don't see why that would change, nor do I see why you want to go beyond this determinism. It is a utopia.
It is absolutely not a utopia ... there is no Karma or predestination, no more than fatality.
Otherwise we should consider that miserable people should remain miserable or that disasters cannot be avoided, diseases fought.
Science has not been deterministic for a long time, the universe does not have a story, it has all the possible stories, so it is up to us to choose our future *.
The problem lies - and it is not insurmountable - in the fact that social phenomena are by nature very inflexible. Indeed an individual decision requires little time as for its implementation, whereas on a large scale that This requires a set of modifications, notably of mentalities and generates a delaying of the consensus because of the disparities of point of view and the frame of reference of each one.
* Which is moreover the definition of intelligence:intelligence is what makes it possible to maximize the choices for possible future actions.