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Originally Posted by Doug McClasky
Why would your awareness be different from the awareness of a pool ball? I mean I guess you could say that you feel different from a pool ball, but then I'm supposed to assume that your feelings are atomically different from the feelings of a pool ball and then I realize that you're going to use that difference to make yourself feel better. And I can't say anything to make this obvious difference clear to you and... omg somebody hang me a gun to put myself out of my misery.
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You do understand that pool balls aren't aware right? Oh, yeah, you're still on nitpicking the 'better awareness' line.
You're making this into a "He believes this because it makes him feel better." bull**** argument again. It's a lot like Christians who say that atheists are just telling themselves god doesn't exist to feel better about sinning.
No, believing I'm different from a pool ball doesn't make me feel better. Believing in free will, a stance I never took, wouldn't make me feel better. Whether or not free will exists is completely irrelevant and it does not give existence any sort of objective importance that you think it does.