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Is Free Will an Illusion? The Metaphysics and Psychology of Choice | Prof. Joshua Hochschild

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Free Will Is Inconceivable

There have been quite a range of metaphors for human beings in a deterministic world. Harris's vision is unapologetically, but also impossibly impersonal. On his account, free will is literally inconceivable. Schopenhauer compared us to something more recognizable. This even has a version of hope for immortality.

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