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I think your problem is that determinism is true and you don't like tautologies.
>then it would be meaningless to consider the supposed consequences of having done otherwise
See, you are an NPC. But, fear not, some NPCs can turn into PCs with great effort.
It's not "meaningless" to suppose alternatives. Supposing alternatives is what allows you to...how did I put it, "find a coping variable which will update the current state function so that future coping is lowered."
You failed in this. You should just accept determinism as an inevitable tautology, and move on. But you can't move on. Because you are an NPC.
>alternative timelines with different events would be completely undefined
They are not undefined. Every alternative possibility (which could not have happened any other way, that's right) is a template for future things which will happen. This is literally the idea that "history repeats itself". You use the understanding of the inevitable decision to predict future happenings. YOU do this. This is something which happens in YOUR head. And the more accurate the prediction, the greater one's understanding.
It's NOT about making YOUR decisions, you fucking solopsist. It is about understanding the decisions of OTHERS. And, the greater your free will, the more you can believe fringe beliefs. Free will is something which is OBSERVED, not something which you POSSESS.
A person who calls themselves a poet or a philosopher is not a poet or a philosopher. Being called "a poet" is receiving a title, just like being "a philosopher" is a title, which conferred onto someone else.
You are an NPC because I call you an NPC. I observe NPC behavior and I lablel it as such.
I have the free will to believe you are an NPC. I'm not going to fish for excuses to show why you actually know what you're talking about. I am not going to do your work for you, except that is exactly what I did because I have free will.
This is /sci/, after all.
But I've got faith in you.

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