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Re:Can you use your "free will"? Try your hand by lupire on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @08:53AM (#38084056)
It's impossible to prove that free will does not exist. I could be losing on purpose.

However, what the game does is refute a particular attempt to prove that will does exist.

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Re:Can you use your "free will"? Try your hand by NateEag on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @09:14AM (#38084334)
I don't see how.

I think it's closer to an attempted refutation of a strawman.

As one who leans towards belief in free will and also towards compatibilism, and more importantly originates from a culture with a shared belief in free will (conservative Christian evangelicalism), I don't think anyone I've known who believed in it meant "I believe my actions are fundamentally unpredictable."

I think they just meant that they genuinely have an ability to choose between the options they perceive, and then to attempt to enact that choice.

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