“Free will is an illusion we tell ourselves”
Agree
- Brain scans show decisions form before awareness
- Genetics and environment shape everything
- Every choice has a prior cause
- Feeling of choice could be post-hoc
- Physics leaves no room for magic
Disagree
- We clearly make deliberate choices daily
- Moral responsibility requires free will
- Consciousness gives us genuine agency
- Determinism can't explain creativity
- Experience of freedom is undeniable
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