The Solution to the Problem of the Freedom of the Will

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(2017-11-09, 12:24 AM)Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: As I requested earlier, can you pick any causal process and explain the "how" of it?

Because it seems to me I've already given examples of how free will would work in particular metaphysics, but if you can give us a "how" of any causal process perhaps we can move beyond this impasse?
I cannot, except see next paragraph.

Would you be willing to give a succinct description of how free will works in some metaphysic? I don't need another name for the agent of free will. I think I need a description of cause and effect in that metaphysic, but it cannot simply be "agent X causes event Y by will." That is no more detailed than "events X and Y cause Z by physical interaction" or "without event X, Z cannot occur" or "event Z happens at random."

If you believe that we cannot get any more detailed than those scenarios, then so be it.

~~ Paul
If the existence of a thing is indistinguishable from its nonexistence, we say that thing does not exist. ---Yahzi

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RE: The Solution to the Problem of the Freedom of the Will - by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos - 2017-11-09, 02:26 PM

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