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Luisa and Keiran on free will, and the consequences of never feeling enduring guilt or shame

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The Consequences of Free Will

I find it very confusing. I've just never been around around it. It all sounds to me like very smart people like coming up with ways to explain this thing of like, look, we definitely have very well. Let's try and figure out a way to explain it. And by choices, you mean like there are sets of actions that are available to the brain. And they're not and the brain isn't coerced. There's no gun to its head. There's nothing. And therefore that is some kind of degree of freedom, which again, on their account would give you moral responsibility. Over 50% of philosophers think this.

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