Hopeless Knowledge

image by AI; my own prompt For the last decade or so, I’ve occasionally written about what I’ve called the ‘Three Daves’ — the first, the idealistic activist, the second the joyful collapsnik pessimist, and the third the ‘there is no you’ radical non-dualist. These ‘three Daves’ have seemed to take turns writing my blog posts, since what they each assert is completely irreconcilable with the beliefs and worldviews of the other two. Rather than being exasperated by that, and feeling a bit schizophrenic, I’ve actually enjoyed the ’dialogue’ among them. I’ve always been comfortable with ambiguity, and whenever any of the three Daves has been dismayed by events of the day, one of the other two is ready to shrug and say it’s OK — let it go. We’ve got you, Dave. But in recent years, while I still enjoy reading perspectives from those sharing worldviews with all three Daves, I’m starting to get a bit set in my thinking on one topic: the absence of free will. Even when I cheer some short-term…

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