(March 14, 2012 at 5:29 pm)Rhythm Wrote: The difference between your definition of free will and no free will would be what? The difference between your definition of free will and the illusion of free will would be what? I'm with Faith on this one, hard determinism isn't something that I like, but it isn't something that I can so easily dismiss.
"What one means by an agent or 'I' or self".
If one defines the "I"(the agent) as separate from this neruochemistry, from the experiences, from the thoughts etc - basically, anything that can be shown physically - then the "I" automatically becomes an illusory entity - as does his free will.