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Free will has more to do with tort law than quantum physics. Any attempt to get at "free will" through something other than legal analysis, game theory, and psy
by ThrustVectoring 9y ago
Free will has more to do with tort law than quantum physics. Any attempt to get at "free will" through something other than legal analysis, game theory, and psychology is fundamentally misguided and is making type errors about what laypeople are talking about when they say "free will".
- simonh 9y agoA thousand time yes. Free will only makes sense in the context of an individual Actor. So we can talk about my free will for example. But for that free will and the choices I make to be mine, they must logically be dependent on my state at that time. If they are not determined by my state, then those choices are in no way mine. Furthermore in order to be free choices, they must not be primarily determined by external influences such as threats or misinformation. This is not a tautology. It's a necessary requirement if any choices are to be ascribed to an agent that the state of the agent must determine the choice. Why this is in any way controversial really eludes me. So are our choices pre-determined? In the sense we are talking about, yes. Is that a problem philosophically? Sure, but philosophy and the real world have no obligation to be convenient to our expectations or desires.