On 7/6/2025 5:22 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote:
Bruce,
No, not exactly. Compatibilism is just a sentiment.
The idea of free will that is neither determined nor random is simply
silly.
Compatibilist free will is deterministic. That's why it's compatible
with physical determinism.
Brent
MWI is totally compatible with that. It just doesn't pretend to solve
the philosophical problem of free will, because nothing does.
Quentin
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. (Roy
Batty/Rutger Hauer)
Le dim. 6 juil. 2025, 13:53, Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> a
écrit :
On Sun, Jul 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM Quentin Anciaux
<[email protected]> wrote:
Bruce,
Free will in the strict sense is incoherent. If choices are
determined, they aren't free, and if they’re random, they
aren't willed.
Self-location in a multiverse is just random, so there is no sense
in which you freely choose anything. You still have made no
connection with compatibilism in a single deterministic universe.
Bruce
It's just a subjective feeling of agency.
MWI doesn't fix that paradox, it just avoids adding hidden
conspiracies to the physics.
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