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How is your experience being generated? There lies the difficulty for the notion of free will.

It's not enough. Using that criteria, it could be said that computers have free will, as Jarhyn claims. Simple organisms have will, the drive to eat, procreate, etc, yet without the ability to reason, are not seen as moral agents. The brain generates will according to its neural architecture...

You have tried to explain, but I have yet to see an adequate explanation. Again, given that it is compatibilists that give their definition of free will in relation to their definition of determinism, and incompatibilists, accepting the given definition of determinism, point out the flaw in...

Don't stop, it's a race, man.

You tell me, you are the one who invokes the modal fallacy defence. I just stick to the given definitions, how compatibilists define determinism and how they define free will. I don't dispute their definition of determinism, but merely point out that their definition of free will is flawed...

Like most of your posts on this subject, your post just demonstrated your lack of understanding of the implications of determinism. What's worse, even as you yourself define it to be. That is the sad part. But wait, there's more. Not only that, but how the compatibilist definition of free...

An eyeroll emoji won't help save compatibilism.

As the subject matter is free will, with some arguing for compatibilism, where the subject happens to be incredibly repetitive, my standard response is relevant. And considering the thread title and the nature and function of the brain as the sole agent of thought and response, I would say...

Modal fallacy? If there is, compatibilism is based on a modal fallacy, which is another reason to reject compatibilism. The basics? I am not making up my own terms and conditions, not in relation to how compatibilism defined determinism or how it defines free will. None of the given terms...

I see that you are still having trouble with the basics. Here's a primer. I hope it helps, but expect that it won't. What Does Deterministic System Mean? ''A deterministic system is a system in which a given initial state or condition will always produce the same results. There is no...

That the process is me has no relevance or bearing on the necessity of how events unfold within a system that permits no alternate actions.

It relates to how the compatibilist definition of free will relates to how determinism is defined, and why compatibilism fails to make a case for free will. A mere label is not enough. Asserting free will establishes nothing. It is insufficient because within a deterministic without being...

Given determinism, all events and actions are freely performed or carried out as determined as the system evolves. If determined, there are no impediments. You get up in the morning and go about your daily activities, as determined, feeling free and unimpeded in your activity. But given the...

How is it freely willed when one's will is set by an unconscious process that permits no alternatives? Without the possibility of doing otherwise, it is no more a matter of freedom of will than any other determined thought or action. Given determinism will is not free, but set or fixed by...

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