i don't blame people for their attachment to the concept of free will, since their having said attachment was deterministic anyway
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that relies on a manifestly contestable view of causality. here's a different view of causality: substances/"agents" possess causal powers rather than belonging to a linear chain of causality. they have dispositions toward some effect. now your dichotomy has already collapsed
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'self-determined' decisions are now possible without either preferring any background view in physics, whether the universe is generally casually determinate or indeterminate to x degree.
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i don't need to spend the rest of my life reading Aquinas to be familiar enough with bullshit handwaving about the ontic literality of the Christian creator deity to know that it's bullshit same deal here
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you don't have to meet such a specific and extreme requirements, but you're not even meeting bare minimum standards for intellectual honesty. just declaring things to be bullshit
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