RE: If free will was not real
July 29, 2016 at 10:46 am
(This post was last modified: July 29, 2016 at 10:51 am by bennyboy.)
(July 29, 2016 at 7:01 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: You sound like a compatabilist, compatabilist free will is real.
Given a physical universe and nothing more, I'm a compatibilist. But EVEN IF there were a transdimensional, magical soul, I don't think "free will" could mean "free from causality." Whatever the self is, whether we fully understand it or not, it almost surely is part of a causal process-- unless it is eternal, which is another argument entirely. Now, I'm not making any argument about soul or anything-- I'm just saying that my view on free will pretty much works either way.
Right now, the popular view at least here is the physical monism. In that context, I'd say yeah I'm pretty close to Dennett or someone like that.