The Blind Spot of the Frame and Irreducible Agency
Mechanistic physicalism seeks to salvage human agency by pronouncing free will an "inevitable emergence" born of escalating complexity. Radical existentialism indicts those who deny freedom as guilty of "bad faith" (mauvaise foi). Yet beneath their apparent opposition, both traditions smuggle in Thomas Nagel's "view from nowhere," pretending to occupy an impossible Archimedean perch outside lived reality.
To forge reproducible objective models, the observer methodologically stepped behind the recording apparatus. Modern epistemology, however, fell prey to a profound amnesia: mistaking…
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