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#419 Christian List: Why Free Will Is Real

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Indeterminism at the Level of Agency

The atmosphere is described as a stochastic system which no longer behaves deterministically so here you've got indeterminism at that higher level co-existent with determinism. The only objection that now very often comes up is well you know maybe from a purely mathematical perspective i'm right but surely they move from lower level determinism to higher level indeterminism it's just a move from a state of complete information to a state of ignorance or incomplete information about the micro details. What we really have here is not genuine indeterminism but just some form of unpredictability due to our ignorance of the underlying physical details.

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