Should nonexistence impede your freedom to take action?

Something doesn’t have to exist for a lot of people to talk about it. And when people talk about it, or think about it, it acts. It changes us. It changes the way we think. It is as if it was an independent agent.

So if you suspend disbelief and imagine yourself as something nonexistent, do you no longer have any freedom? Or do you have the same degree of freedom? Or does your freedom depend on something else? Then what is that something and how can you maximize it, thus maximizing your freedom.

Literal thinking will get you nowhere on this question, but it is very serious question.

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