• zed_proclaimer [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    Google compatibilism, it’s the generally widely-accepted view of free will among philosophers

    https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compatibilism/

    It’s possible that the world works mostly deterministically (with a bit of randomness) and will can still be real. It’s not “free” in the Libertarian idealist sense, but we still make choices and are accountable for our actions. It doesn’t really matter if we were always going to make a choice, we still made it.

    It’s not clear why the world being non-deterministic and more random would allow more free will to occur anyway. Random =/= free will.