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An interesting feature of #atheism is that if atheism is true, it is not a belief about reality itself. It is instead a belief about human ideas: that certain human ideas about reality are false.
But if atheism is false, it is indeed about reality (albeit a wrong idea about reality).
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In the *argument from freedom*, one starts with an expansive form of atheism, and... what sort of philosophy is this? It lives in the same space as atheism: it is a completely different sort of philosophy depending on whether or not it's correct. On the one hand, if it's true, the whole argument is about human ideas and which ones are wrong. But if it's false, it is an incorrect argument about reality itself.
But hold on...
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What's so "expansive" about the atheism that appears in the argument from freedom?
The argument from freedom starts with the atheistic belief that there is no Creator; but also... there are no truly fundamental laws of physics; no external influencers on the universe; no external sources; no external causes. Nothing is "outside of" or "prior to" to reality. There are no brute facts imposed upon reality, as if from the outside.
Why? Well - atheism is just a belief - I don't have an argument for it. But I can share that do not believe it makes any sense for reality to be subject to constraints because, to me, it is a sort of anthropomorphization: we are highly constrained creatures, and we misapply our experience to what we imagine reality to be like.
I call all these things (Gods, Laws, Brute Facts, etc.) "constraints" - and I don't believe reality as a whole can be constrained.
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In other words, I believe the universe is *free*. We see this "freedom" problem pop up all over the place in Western #philosophy. It shows up in a social or personal sense - but also in this same metaphysical/ontological sense. My essay (or, if you prefer, my TREATISE OF ROGUE PHILOSOPHY) is about: what does it mean if the universe is profoundly free?
I don't magically discover what reality is like, but (if you buy my argument) I learn some unexpected things about what reality IS NOT LIKE.
Let me know what you think, and please help share with folks who might be interested, and let them know if you can honestly say, "well huh. this is interesting. It's actually worth a read." There's a flood of information out there, and friends, it's not easy going rogue.