A Sense of Free Will: the consciousness quagmire (Introduction)

by David Turell @, Wednesday, November 11, 2015, 18:47 (3089 days ago) @ dhw

dhw:When we last corresponded on this issue, six weeks ago, I suggested that “whether we think we have what is known as “free will” ....depends on how we define the term”. Since I accept that your definition and your cause-and-effect approach eliminate free will, and since for you the compatibilist approach and my identity approach are rabbit holes that miss the point completely (the point presumably being that nothing is independent of cause and effect, the environment and the universe), I really think this discussion has now run its circular course.-I would have to fully agree, having followed this debate. Anything can be defined into or out of contention. To each his own.


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