it's called hard determinism because it is hard to maintain belief in it in face of all the concerns against it
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Replying to @gabrielamadej
uhh are any of these concerns not argument-from-ought-to-is
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Replying to @chaosprime
the main problem is that the free will skeptic has a lot to deal with. you usually need to outline controversial views of causality or equally controversial interpretations of modern neuroscientific findings to really motivate free will skepticism
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Replying to @gabrielamadej @chaosprime
+ even though i'm favourable to libertarian free will, i don't think there are really any good arguments against compatibilism
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Replying to @gabrielamadej
sure there are, that it's fucking nonsense. either things happen for reasons and we live in a nightmare cosmos or things happen for no reason and we live in an even more nightmare cosmos. a free will that's caused isn't anyone's idea of free will and an uncaused one is worse.
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Replying to @chaosprime @gabrielamadej
the whole concept is incoherent and based solely in that our consciousness *feels like* it's somehow sitting in another magical place and making decisions based on an independent continuity of some kind, but spoilers, it isn't
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operating as if you had free will is optimal for a lot of purposes but should always be tempered with the awareness that it's horseshit
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