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I think you’re presupposing the existence of free will. Here’s a question for you: what explanatory or predictive value does the concept of free will have?
by catlifeonmars 2y ago
I think you’re presupposing the existence of free will. Here’s a question for you: what explanatory or predictive value does the concept of free will have?
- oezi 2y agoThe goal of the concept of free will is to explain that there is a possibility of an event to be 'caused' by a human (or another life form sufficiently able). Without the concept of free will you would have to assume that the cause for the event is originating from something else (a calculation of sorts based on previous states of the universe is a commonly stated alternative). Free will walks the line of being a physics-based process which is neither to easily deterministic such as stone being heated in the sun or too random such as a radioactive element emitting a radioactive decay at a random/statistical time but still localizes the cause for an event in some assemblage of atoms such as a living being.