RE: If free will was not real
July 8, 2016 at 4:17 am
(This post was last modified: July 8, 2016 at 4:17 am by Edwardo Piet.)
Indeterminism doesn't give you free will and determinism doesn't either....
If you say "some things have a cause and some things don't" then the things that have a cause are deterministic, and the things that don't are indeterministic, and still both categories of things don't have free will because determinism and indeterminism still both don't give you free will.
It's more consistent to think either everything has a cause or the universe is deterministic. If you wanna say some things are deterministic/have a cause and some things are merely correlated/indeterministic, fine, doesn't change anything.
If you say "some things have a cause and some things don't" then the things that have a cause are deterministic, and the things that don't are indeterministic, and still both categories of things don't have free will because determinism and indeterminism still both don't give you free will.
It's more consistent to think either everything has a cause or the universe is deterministic. If you wanna say some things are deterministic/have a cause and some things are merely correlated/indeterministic, fine, doesn't change anything.