Believers in free will like to claim that their view of humans is warmer and more dignifying than that of cold, mechanistic determinists. But we’d probably treat people with more warmth and dignity if we accepted that they ultimately did not choose to be who they are.
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Not if the universe is deterministic. There would be no agency. However, I think appeals to many worlds theory and the like are appeals to the supernatural. Maybe the particles in another universe determine the outcome of otherwise stochastic events, or maybe God does...
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