RE: Is free will real?
December 15, 2014 at 4:46 am
(This post was last modified: December 15, 2014 at 4:52 am by Tartarus Sauce.)
Define "free will."
If you mean will that is wholly unhindered by antecedent variables, no that doesn't exist. Human agency is affected by precursory causal factors. That's not to say that it is fatalistically determined as singular courses of actions, that's not to say it isn't either, but it's impossible to account for every condition influencing something as complex as a human agent with 100% reliability. One can however make predictions.
But contra-causal free will does not exist on the spectrum of human agency.
If you mean will that is wholly unhindered by antecedent variables, no that doesn't exist. Human agency is affected by precursory causal factors. That's not to say that it is fatalistically determined as singular courses of actions, that's not to say it isn't either, but it's impossible to account for every condition influencing something as complex as a human agent with 100% reliability. One can however make predictions.
But contra-causal free will does not exist on the spectrum of human agency.
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