(August 17, 2016 at 4:45 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Right, so it's dog, but you prefer to call it taco meat. I'm not disagreeing with you, mind you...lol...just commenting on what it looks like to an outsider. The only difference between our positions is that I don't screw around with referring to what we have with the folkloric term. It would -seem- like there should be a bigger difference between a compatibilists position and a hard skeptics position in this regard, there just never seems to be.
I honestly think it's about getting over the specious metaphysics that defined a freely made decision as ex nihilo in the first place. You might call it dog meat, I call the incompatibilist libertarian position magical unicorn meat. It was meaningless to begin with. I'm happy to understand free will as an executive function of the brain, however causally deterministic it is. It's "free" in the sense that matters to persons, which is phenomenological.
A Gemma is forever.
