(2020-12-26, 10:17 PM)Smaw Wrote: A compatiblist believes that while we are subject to cause and effect there is no cosmic gun to the back of our head forcing us to choose our decisions, we may always choose to go left over right, but if anything were to change we might not.
The gun would be in the first part of your sentence, "we are subject to cause and effect".
Quote:Ive got sympathy towards libertarianism though because I believe the claims that free will has been disproved are stupid. Ignoring the fact that supposed tests showing that it's not real are based on short term studies and tests that may not be as reliable as people want them to be, and not longer examinations that look at increased complexity and consideration like choosing a car, marrying a woman ect.
Just to be clear the focus of the debate here is more metaphysical, as in could there be a being who is free?
It is after all possible to believe a being in some possible world -say the Ur-Mind of Idealism- could be free while rejecting the idea that a human being is free.
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
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- Bertrand Russell