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Actually free will does exist, unless you define it by some ridiculous standard that I want to fly but I can’t.
You have free will to pursue your survival and best interests, obviously within the limitations of our physical body.

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JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s actually the people who try to reconcile free will and a deterministic universe who make the ridiculous arguments, such as compatibilism, which basically just redefines free will. If free will were to be true, you have to have the ability to have acted differently.

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- Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The universe is not deterministic, but that’s completely irrelevant. The argument of free will does not rely on the lack of determinism of quantum mechanics.
  
  If free will were to be true, you have to have the ability to have acted differently.
  
  And how will you determine the existence or lack thereof, of the ability to act differently?
  I’d say we very probably have this ability, since we often reacts differently in similar situations. Ergo by your own standard, your conclusion is wrong.
  
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  - JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You have to have acted differently at that time in that situation, not at another time in a different situation.
    
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    Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    And how will you determine the existence or lack thereof, of the ability to act differently?
    
    You didn’t answer that.
    
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    Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s an impossible standard to evaluate, and doesn’t make the tiniest bit of sense.
    
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