My view is that free will is as real as a single human agency. If you see a human as a single agent, then that agent has the power to make decisions and to act on them. If you see a human as just a label for a gazillion QM particles vibrating in space, then "free will" is also just a label for some of the complex interactions coming from those totally non-willed, non-human particles.
I have a problem with people switching perspectives, and cherry picking too much. For example, if free will is not real, then responsibility is meaningless, and the idea of a legal justice system has to go out the window. But I've seen people argue in one thread that free will is an illusion, all is deterministic, and then on another thread say that a child rapist should be executed or something like that.
I have a problem with people switching perspectives, and cherry picking too much. For example, if free will is not real, then responsibility is meaningless, and the idea of a legal justice system has to go out the window. But I've seen people argue in one thread that free will is an illusion, all is deterministic, and then on another thread say that a child rapist should be executed or something like that.
