Brilliant question I've been asking myself recently: what do I (and others) WANT to be true?
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I've made a little headway on free will by treating it not as something that actually exists, but rather as something that we all kinda have to believe in (for various reasons). HT: https://web.archive.org/web/20140709105540/http://genealogyreligion.net/freeunfree-will …
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Agreed. I think it's factually an illusion while functionally helpful (mostly). I've found in debates like this one https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/free-will-revisited … they generally talk past each other.
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I believe free will is illusory. Yet I contradict myself by wanting to believe people in crappy circumstances are there by their own doing.
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Lots of merely verbal confusion in that literature. Some use the term to describe a faculty we clearly have. Others us it to describe a faculty that we don't have, and is probably incoherent. That's one of those terms I like to taboo.
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