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WldFyre@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

It’s so funny and interesting how completely differently we feel about this haha

But from the inside your mind you would of course say you have free will because that is how you defined it.

No I wouldn’t say that. And that’s how compatibilists have re-defined free will, it’s not what people generally think of when they think of free will. “You don’t have a choice, but you just feel like you have a choice, which is actually free will” is not a statement most people would agree with.

In a universe with only such PC based human minds, you wouldn’t argue that you don’t have free will because we’re just software running silicon chips.

Yes I would. I’m also arguing that now about our human based human minds.

Otherwise you’d have to invent a new word for what you meant with free will, like internally derived mental agency or something.

Or, I could just accept that free will doesn’t exist, it’s a fake feeling. Similar to how love feels like it comes from the heart but it’s all in the brain.

We have consciousness, and are self aware. But the universe is deterministic and there was never any other choice you could have made at any point in your life. A million times over and you would have always done exactly the same things, and had the exact same chemical reactions to the stimuli you experienced. It’s not a contradictory world view, and it doesn’t require any form of free will, let alone redefining it. But people get uncomfortable thinking about it so it often gets rejected out of hand.

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