So I think it's important to understand that philosophy doesn't just identify, it also creates.

Right.

So physics doesn't just identify, it also creates.

So when you understand, say, the principle of gravity, you can create acceleration in a spaceship by using the slingshot effect where you go around a big gravity well

and use it to accelerate, right? So when you understand physics, then you can create a boomerang,

you can create a bow and arrow, and, you know, eventually a gun and so on. And so philosophy doesn't just

identify things. Philosophy is not just passive. So as I sort of mentioned in a recent show about

UPB, UPB doesn't just identify morality. UPB, in a very real sense, creates morality. Now, I don't mean out of thin

claw, out of thin air or out of whole cloth, but UPB creates morality because morality is that

which we can choose, but we have to have a motive or incentive to choose.

So if we are fed bad information, our choices diminish. If for whatever reason we believe that lying around and eating cheesecake is the best way to lose weight and get ripped,

and we believe that, then we don't have a functional choice to lose weight and get ripped because we have

bad information. So if free will is our ability to compare proposed actions to ideal standards,

without those ideal standards, we don't really have free will. So does a hedonist have free will in a practical and exercisable fashion?

And we can talk about the theory and the potential and so on,

but bad information means that the potential can't be actualized.

So does everyone have the ability to lose weight?

Yeah, pretty much. But if you have bad information, do you have have the ability to lose weight? Yeah, pretty much. But if you have

bad information, do you have any practical capacity to lose weight? So if we look at someone like a

hedonist, a hedonist says, I will do what is most pleasurable in the moment. Well, that, of course,

is living like an animal. Animals in general do what is most pleasurable in the moment.

And you say, well, animals make sacrifices to birds fly all over the place to get food for their

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