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23 - Does Physics Allow for Free Will?

Why This Universe?

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The Importance of Compatibility in Morality

In a universe in which we did not have compatibilist free will, your brain would be going, I don't want to drink coffee. Even if we know deep down because of the laws of physics, we weren't all the way responsible for the states that led us to do certain things. A lot of philosophers have argued that the whole basis of morality and ethics is predicated on libertarian free will.

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