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Episode 12: Libertarianism, Part 2 (Agent-Causal) with Timothy O'Connor

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Controlling Your Own Choices

If it's only a 50% likelihood that my pushing a button is going to have the desired effect, well then i have miteddiminished control. I can influence the likelihood of its occurring, but i can't really fully control it. That's an indirect form of control. And if there's indeterminism between what i do andwhat eventually comes about, well, that that puts that kind of limits, the degree of control i have. We make choices, right? It's the choices are things we do. Some antecedent factors didn't suffice to guarantee that i would make the choice that i do,. But that does nothing to diminish my control if, in fact,

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