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Poll: Do you subscrbe to belief in free-will, determinism, or compatibilism?
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Libertarian Free-Will
12.00%
3 12.00%
Compatibilism
24.00%
6 24.00%
Determinism
40.00%
10 40.00%
Other, please explain
24.00%
6 24.00%
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Another Free-will poll, please bear with me!
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RE: Another Free-will poll, please bear with me!
Sure. I went by the definition given me on the poll Smile I don't understand enough about quantum randomness to know what the implications are.

Benny: It is a weird thought that someone without free will could "figure out" that they have no free will. But then, they've just followed the path they were going to follow to make that conclusion. If you really don't have free will, you can't "act like" anything, although you may think you are doing so. I don't know if it can ever be possible to prove conclusively there is no free will. It may be possible to make a probability judgement on it in the future, which is all science does anyway.

With free will it all comes down to definitions, and I think as a general phrase it is a red herring. It's extremely vague. If it is just quantum randomness, then it's just the outcome of randomness. Calling those outcomes "choices" seems bizarre.
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RE: Another Free-will poll, please bear with me! - by robvalue - May 26, 2015 at 8:59 am

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