(July 27, 2016 at 11:18 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote:(July 27, 2016 at 11:10 pm)Cato Wrote: Free will debates are so frustrating. The fucking philosophers rarely degree on definition and the boundaries of application. My opinion is that if determinists are correct, something I doubt can ever be proven or definitively disproved, our species is still reconciled to navigating our existence as if we had free will. So in the end it really doesn't make a fuck.
It does make a fuck and the simple fact that philosophers debate it doesn't mean it isn't an already won debate. Free will is an incomprehensible idea that simply isn't compatible with reality, like a round triangle, if you will.
According to a fairly recent systematic poll, around 60% of academic philosophers were compatibilists. And only around 12% said there was no free will.
http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog...s-believe/