RE: If free will was not real
August 21, 2016 at 8:01 pm
(This post was last modified: August 21, 2016 at 8:17 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 21, 2016 at 7:40 pm)Gemini Wrote: Because the article supported the compatibilist and not the colloquial sense. You can show me where they referenced contra-causality if you like, but I'm pretty sure I didn't miss it.Which establishes my point as effectively as anything can, and fails to establish any freedom of will...even if they just really like to call it that, for whatever reason.
Quote:So would you treat someone with frontal lobe damage the same way as someone with an anti-social personality? Should people who lack a neural mechanism for controlling impulses be incarcerated with people who have a neural mechanism for controlling impulses which has devoloped in ways antagonistic to civilized society? This both an ethical and legal question.I'm the wrong person to ask. I'd treat -all- of us differently, in context..but I'm neither empowered nor qualified to make such decisions. I dig holes for a living. That's the irony of life (imo)..people like me (and far better than me) dig holes....the pope forms opinion.
Quote:Again: duress and coercion are not the same thing as deterministic causality. The deterministic outcome of the causal processes constituting my will aren't an external factor constraining me, as they would be per duress and coercion. The deterministic outcome of the causal processes constituting my will are identical to my will.
If you say so.
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