(August 17, 2016 at 4:23 pm)Rhythm Wrote: IMO, compatibalists free will is a term of avoidance for what are deterministic processes even in the compatibilists rendition...just as surely as roach coach taco meat is another word for dog. Nobody wants a beagle burrito, and nobody wants to think of themselves or their will as anything -other- than free or in some sort of authoritative control.
The difference in these positions comes down to understanding that "control" is just equivalent to the outcome of causal processes unfolding in the executive functions of a human brain. What we observe in our immediate experience of decision making. Anything more "free" than that is not even worth wanting--a meaningless metaphysical thesis that is best left in the dark ages.
A Gemma is forever.
