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Helen Steward: Do We Have Free Will?

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Is There Any Kind of Agentive Phenomenology?

I am opposed to the idea that there ever has to be anything in agency that's a kind of certain sort of mental precursor, just because i think there's so many kinds of action. It feels as though i decide on the basis of my beliefs and desires compel me to act. The control doesn't consist in causation by some prior event, you know, pressing the ignition button and off you go. You don't just initiate and then, and then you know, go to sleep while the while the events pake over. But why can't tey, why cind af compatiblis? Kwledged i and say, yeso, what's producing? I used the example about

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