Re:Photons, Quasars and the Possibility of Free Will
by naasking on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @08:59AM
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> So, either there is no free will because all your actions are determined by past actions, or instead free will just means that part of your actions are just based on, essentially, the throw of a dice. In both of these cases, you yourself have 0 agency.
Your mistake is assuming that determinism precludes agency. You've merely claimed this, you haven't proven it like you did with case #2.
You'll actually find that you can't prove this and so you should give up that assumption, at which point you've reinvented Compatibilism. That's why Compatibilism is the majority view among philosophers.
Your mistake is assuming that determinism precludes agency. You've merely claimed this, you haven't proven it like you did with case #2.
You'll actually find that you can't prove this and so you should give up that assumption, at which point you've reinvented Compatibilism. That's why Compatibilism is the majority view among philosophers.