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Do You Have Free Will? With Mark Leon

Brain in a Vat

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The Incompatibility of Choices

When we think of an agent as having freedom of action and being responsible for her action, we really think that the action is going to be up to her. But it's very odd that how we've got two agents who are intrinsically identical, there's no difference between them, operating in identical circumstances - yet the action could go either way. And so this raises a number of problems with the account. Further, if you think about it, it's a very odd notion of a free action, maybe not an entirely coherent one.

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