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A comment on There’s No Such Thing as Free Will. Parent comment

Re:There’s No Such Thing as Free Will by ythl on Friday May 20, 2016 @03:00PM (#11740521)
> The burden of proof is on you to show it is in fact supernatural.

I'm not claiming it is supernatural. I'm only challenging the definitive statement that it is not supernatural and asking for proof.

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Re:There’s No Such Thing as Free Will by gpderetta on Friday May 20, 2016 @04:42PM (#11741338)
Are you stepping into invisible pink unicorn territory?
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Re:There’s No Such Thing as Free Will by ythl on Friday May 20, 2016 @04:55PM (#11741441)
Let me put it this way:

Consciousness is definitely not deterministic.

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Re:There’s No Such Thing as Free Will by gpderetta on Friday May 20, 2016 @05:11PM (#11741555)
It could go either way, but so far the biology and neuroscience point to quantum indeterminism effects having little to no role in the brain.

Still I do not see how indeterminism would actually enable free will. Would an automa without free will acquire it if a higher counter was added to its brain?

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