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Libertarian Free Will

Libertarian free will is the idea that there's some otherwise uncaused cause that swoops in and makes things happen. Mire timothy o'connor has a very rigorously worked out conception of what it would mean to have emerged, strongly, emergent a causal capacities which are not reducible to the erand. The red herring whitiand why do people get hung up on it? It's because they have thesees, sort of ideas about what free will is. That's just nonsense. There is such a thing as voluntary action. Organisms deploy voluntary actions - but does this require a libertarian free will? No, it's a property of my brain and

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