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23 - Does Physics Allow for Free Will?

Why This Universe?

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The Compatibilityist View of Free Will

If we just take the Newtonian picture of physics, one that describes a completely deterministic world, this view is just not compatible with the idea of libertarian free will. But philosophers also talk about a different kind of free will which is not so obviously problematic from a laws of physics perspective. And it's called a compatibilist view of free will. So I'm not libertarian free, but I tend to act in a way that's consistent with my preferences.

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