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#419 Christian List: Why Free Will Is Real

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Are Non-Human Primates a Part of the Human Mind?

i define free will as this three part capacity consisting of intentional agency choice between alternative possibilities and causal control over the resulting actions. In principle we can look at any organism for instance a non-human animal and ask does that organism possess some versions of these three capacities, he says. i think my theory of free will gives us a helpful framework for thinking about this question and it's also very plausible to argue that as agents uh those non-human animals face face choices in fact there is actually a lot of work now in in biology looking at choice-making among non- human animals.

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