I thought about it for quite some time and defined it for myself as following: free will is possibility to make two different choices in identical (down to quantum level and below) set of two universes. That applies only to something that has a “will”, which is yet to be defined.
If being in identical circumstances you predictably make identical decisions, that doesn’t look like free will to me. Your choice was made by circumstances for you.
Right now I’m a compatibilist. I haven’t yet found an explanation of how free will could non-deterministically work that makes any sense.
But I find the idea that free will is “your will coming into effect” reasonable (ie: I want something and make it happen), and it doesn’t require that you choose your desires so it’s compatible with determinism.
Randomness doesn’t give us free will. It gives us chaos. No free will and no fate, just bullshit.
Well, how do you define free will?
I thought about it for quite some time and defined it for myself as following: free will is possibility to make two different choices in identical (down to quantum level and below) set of two universes. That applies only to something that has a “will”, which is yet to be defined.
If being in identical circumstances you predictably make identical decisions, that doesn’t look like free will to me. Your choice was made by circumstances for you.
So yeah, chaos it is. Nothing bad in it.
Right now I’m a compatibilist. I haven’t yet found an explanation of how free will could non-deterministically work that makes any sense.
But I find the idea that free will is “your will coming into effect” reasonable (ie: I want something and make it happen), and it doesn’t require that you choose your desires so it’s compatible with determinism.