Could someone who believes in compatibilism explain it to me? It feels like a semantic sleight of hand to me.
If you are a soul and it makes decisions: you are free. If you are a body and it makes decisions: you are likewise free.
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That the body itself has properties (as it must) doesn't change the fact that what you ARE takes actions, in a deliberative way.
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Further elaborated in this comic of mine: http://existentialcomics.com/comic/70
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question that I didn't find adequately addressed by the comic: what does it mean to "make a decision"?
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the brain goes through the actions that we perceive as making a decision, but if no other course was possible..
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