The Cosmological Argument and Free Will

[bennyboy]

Pickup.

Thanks for sharing your perspective.

I like the quote from James that free will is quagmire of evasion :-)

James believed in free will, or as he calls it "novelty." What he calls a quagmire of evasion is my position, that "free will" (a refined definition of it) and determinism can be reconciled.

Do you see this as a semantic reconciliation? I don't see how you can use normal definitions of determinism and free will and have them work together. If you say something like, "Free will is the experience one has of one's brain's decision-making process," I wouldn't be able to work with that definition.