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Yes, We Have Free Will. No, We Do Not
- bell-cot 3y ago> ...physicist Sabine Hossenfelder writes that the idea of free will is incoherent. “For your will to be free, it shouldn’t be caused by anything else. But if it wasn’t caused by anything—if it’s an ‘uncaused cause,’ as Frederich Nietzsche put it—then it wasn’t caused by you, regardless of just what you mean by you..." THIS. "Free Will" is one of those woolly concepts which Philosophers have a perpetual license to waste time talking about - because it pushes people's buttons, and the Philosophers know better than to agree on any short / specific / useful definition of it.
- effed3 3y agoSeems all about free/not-free will is no more than opinions, as no real concrete logical fact and proofs are in both fields, probably is a question outside any proof, and there are those who -feel- free (with all pro/cons) and those who not feel free (with the relative pro/cons), influenced by their own picture of the world. given this, to me, the arguments of -yes, free will- are slight more sound than those of -no free will-, but i think this is because -my own- concepts of "me" "free" "will" "world" "cause" "effect" "determinism" "causality" "complexity"... But if Salpolsy put a total determinism, it's idea is determined, it's not a sapolsky idea, is an event determined, sa any other, and the opposite free-will idea is too, determined, both are no more than a result of the same chains of events, so this position is inconclusive. as many others concepts, the ideas of freedom and causality collides, if are both too narrow..