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    The clockwork universe: is free will an illusion? ... But it seems absolutely obvious that you were free to choose the apple - or neither, or both - instead. That's free will: were you to rewind the tape of world history, to the instant just before you made your decision, with everything in the universe exactly the same, you'd have been ...
  3. "It was the French polymath Pierre-Simon Laplace, writing in 1814, who most succinctly expressed the puzzle here: how can there be free will, in a universe where events just crank forwards like clockwork?" Here is a physicist / cosmologist and a philosopher. Physical determinism can't invalidate our experience as free agents.
  4. contribucions.org

    The clockwork universe: is free will an illusion? By Editor April 27, 2021. To the free will sceptics, this is all just a desperate attempt at face-saving and changing the subject - an effort to redefine free will not as the thing we all feel, when faced with a choice, but as something else, unworthy of the name. ...
  5. ethicalpsychology.com

    The clockwork universe: is free will an illusion? Oliver Burkeman. The Guardian. Originally posted 27 APR 21. Here is an excerpt: And Saul Smilansky, a professor of philosophy at the University of Haifa in Israel, who believes the popular notion of free will is a mistake, told me that if a graduate student who was prone to depression sought to ...
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    The Clockwork Universe: Is Free Will an Illusion? Oliver Burkeman The Guardian May 4, 2021 Pixabay Towards the end of a conversation dwelling on some of the deepest metaphysical puzzles regarding the nature of human existence, the philosopher Galen Strawson paused, then asked me: "Have you spoken to anyone else yet who's received weird ...
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    Dec 9, 2024But it seems absolutely obvious that you were free to choose the apple - or neither, or both - instead. That's free will: were you to rewind the tape of world history, to the instant just before you made your decision, with everything in the universe exactly the same, you'd have been able to make a different one.
  8. justplainpolitics.com

    A growing chorus of scientists and philosophers argue that free will does not exist. Could they be right? "This sort of free will is ruled out, simply and decisively, by the laws of physics," says one of the most strident of the free will sceptics, the evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne...
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