(February 10, 2014 at 12:06 am)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: If we accept that humans are just like any other animal, and we cannot act outside the parameters of "human nature" (yes I know broad and varied term); how much free will do we really have?
None at all.
There's no evidence that qualia are associated with anything other than brain electrochemical states and no evidence that chemistry is governed by other than deterministic mechanisms.
But as a compatibilist I don't worry about it.
We think we have free will and that's all that counts.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? 
