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> Free will and determinism aren't necessarily incompatible.

How?



Determinism just means that your decisions are the inevitable result of the past. This doesn't mean it's not your decision.

The opposite, non-determinism, means that your decisions aren't fully determined by your own past and experiences, which to me sounds like a greater violation of free will.


If "free will" is only a subjective feeling and not an objective state


If you don't require free will to be supernatural.


Right, will is a natural, deterministic feature




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