it's called hard determinism because it is hard to maintain belief in it in face of all the concerns against it
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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it 100% does, though. souls are the origin of causality.
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that may actually be the case but now we either have souls that have causes or souls that don't have causes so all we've accomplished is to push the original situation into a spooky corner where we can more easily ignore it
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that's homeomorphic to solving the problem.
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or, less shitpostily, souls are *partially deterministic,* emerging from specific patterning of massenergy but able to act acausally upon massenergy.
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that's very unlikely, but even if we got all the way to acausality, literally things happening for no reason, that's not any more anybody's idea of free will than strong determinism is
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the reason is "the soul wants to," that's not acausal, that's literally an expression of will as the cause.
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either the soul wants to for a reason, in which case determinism, or the soul wants to for no reason, in which case acausality, neither of which is free will
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reasons aren't determinism any more than "because this is my will" is acausal, though.
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