“Free will is real”
Philosophy💥Existential
Agree
- We make conscious choices daily
- Personal responsibility requires it
- Experience of agency feels undeniable
- Morality only works with free will
- Determinism removes human meaning
Disagree
- Neuroscience shows decisions made unconsciously
- Genes and environment determine everything
- Physics is deterministic
- Can't choose what you want
- Illusion we've convinced ourselves of
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