(2019-03-08, 07:58 PM)Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: My sentence is just a short hand summary of this post
Perhaps you could expand what you mean by causal account? Because whether one agrees or not that seems like a causal account to me.
If [by] causal account you mean a cause that can be set into mathematics then we'd just have Physicalism which we all agree has no free will and everything about human life is worthless. [Thankfully we know it's false.] But I was thinking the discussion was could free will be possible in some possible world, which some of us would take to be this world but others would take to be some possibility that isn't this world.
I'll check out that post.
I'm not looking for mathematics, or even for logic. I'm just trying to grasp how this free agent selects one outcome and not the other.
Why did the free agent choose chicken and not fish? Both were possibilities at the last moment, since we agree that the choice is not determined. And yet the agent chose chicken. Why not fish? There must be a nonrandom reason why the agent chose chicken, a reason that still leaves the door open for having made the other choice.
~~ Paul
If the existence of a thing is indistinguishable from its nonexistence, we say that thing does not exist. ---Yahzi