it's called hard determinism because it is hard to maintain belief in it in face of all the concerns against it
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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if everything is deterministic there's no point in having a conversation at all, because all the responses are just predetermined chemistry happening.
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sure there is, because the conversation becomes part of the preconditions for the further predetermined chemistry
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and in any event that's the form all argument for free will takes, "if we contemplated reality we would be sad so let's not contemplate reality"
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