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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maybe you should at least read the SEP article on compatibilism or something before going all "facts don't care about your feelings" on them
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the SEP article on compatibilism OPENS BY TALKING ABOUT HOW IT'S MAKING PROPOSITIONS ABOUT A PROPERTY IT CAN'T COHERENTLY DEFINE and segues into how really we're trying to make moral responsibility i.e. authority to punish compatible with determinism
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and even if you want to buy into that line it's just pushing the problem back a layer because even if a different kind of causality applies to the soul it's still a causality or it's just things happening for no reason again
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is this just reduction to materialistic monism again, because that positron is self refuting
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I'd be surprised, since that's exactly the most parsimonious and useful definition, why eschew it?
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because on the one hand it's probably bullshit and on the other hand if it isn't bullshit it doesn't actually resolve the issue at all, it just puts it behind a Wizard of Oz curtain
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free will is "lack of information", and freedom is always a concept relative to a system. There isn't any usable meaning of freedom as an absolute concept.
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