(2023-01-23, 02:24 PM)Silence Wrote: I'm a free will guy but I don't have a strong rational basis for why I feel this way. Its much more emotional for me: I can't imagine this entire existence (mine, yours, everyone's) is just deterministic physicalism. It doesn't "feel" right. (Hardly comforting to my rational, scientifically-sensitive self.Neither can I - which is just one reason that I think physical science is seriously incomplete.)
A standard physics explanation for reality has no room for mental phenomena, just physical phenomena in the brain. QM also injects randomness into this picture, but a world that is deterministic plus a shot of randomness also doesn't seem to be capable of supporting mind.
It is worth pointing out that free will underpins the legal system. I mean if I hated someone enough to decide (a form of free will) to kill them, I'd be guilty if I followed through on that act. However if I accidentally killed someone (say with a car), I'd get a much smaller sentence, if any.
Anyone who takes determinism seriously, must live a very strange existence. I think most who claim to believe in determinism simply kid themselves while they are performing in various professional roles.
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