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#419 Christian List: Why Free Will Is Real

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Intentional Agents in Non-Living Entities

On my theory intentional agency is one of the prerequisites for free will. The only entities that would be candidates for the description of free will are really candidates that qualify as intentional agents now if we um look at the natural worlds. If you were prepared to attribute some form of agency or proto agency to an insect beehive for instance or an ant colony or something like that then it might begin to ask questions about whether that system overall could be viewed as having some form of proto proto free will.

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