Re:There’s No Such Thing as Free Will
by gpderetta on Friday May 20, 2016 @05:04PM
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I strongly belive the universe is for all intent and purposes casual [1], I reject dualism and accept that free will objectively doesn't exist (in fact I don't even think you can rigourously define it without invoking supernatural entities).
Still I have no problem to accept free will as a subjective experience, the same way I accept love, fear, hope, despair, and other states of mind, including consciousness. They are just the way our mind work, byproducts in a way. That doesn't mean that in principle one couldn't imagine mind without them, but it would be alien to us an we would probably not even recognise as intelligence.
I guess that makes me a compatibilist.
[1] modulo quantum indeterminism which seems to have surprisingly little effect to the macro world.
Still I have no problem to accept free will as a subjective experience, the same way I accept love, fear, hope, despair, and other states of mind, including consciousness. They are just the way our mind work, byproducts in a way. That doesn't mean that in principle one couldn't imagine mind without them, but it would be alien to us an we would probably not even recognise as intelligence.
I guess that makes me a compatibilist.
[1] modulo quantum indeterminism which seems to have surprisingly little effect to the macro world.