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You miss the point. That it doesn't work in any way you look at it. OK, let's call it radical fatalism. So it is the compatibilist who claims that free will as they define it to be, is compatible with radical fatalism. Are you arguing for compatibilism? Are you happy with that? Or...

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How would chaos theory or indeterminism help with the brain/mind process of decision-making or the idea of free will?

How does chaos theory The 'your wife' bit. Referring to someone's wife in that way is personal and has implications. It's meant to be insulting.

The personal slur aside... speaking in general, the events of the world, including your own nature and circumstances made you want to do it. Your will, your wants and needs made you want to do it, you felt a strong urge, so you act accordingly. That is how compatibilists define free will...

The point is simple, as compatibilists claim that determinism is a necessary condition for thought and decision making, and that free will (as they define it) is compatible with determinism, the question is, based on the given definition, is the compatibilist argument sound? Incompatibilists...

I think that you are introducing the term 'radical fatalism' as a means of dismissal. Like it's something undesirable. Compatibilists call it ''determinism'' and they give their definition of it. It is a standard definition of determinism. Basically: Determinism: The world is governed...

Calling determinism 'radical fatalism' doesn't help resolve the issue. The issue here is the validity of the Compatibilist argument for free will. That free will - as they define it - is indeed compatible with determinism, just as they themselves define determinism. If you have a problem...

Not if you consider determinism as compatibilists define it to be. Isn't that the point? Compatibilists argue that free will is compatible with determinism, not random events or alternate actions or other possibilities or alternate worlds. So there is no point in invoking alternate choices or...

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They were blocked when I posted, now it's there to see. Perhaps some sort of glitch, who knows.

If there are no alternate actions within a deterministic system, which is how determinism is defined, events must unfold as determined. must : be compelled by fate or by natural law : be compelled by physical necessity - Merriam Webster

If deterministic, the world evolves as it must. Event unfold as they must, including brain activity and deliberation. That is how determinism is defined.

Of course it does. It contradicts determinism as compatibilists define it to be. Which is why they define free will in the way they do, bypassing alternate choice. As defined, determinism does not permit an alternate choice in any given instance of decision making. Any ability, to type...

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Quantum indeterminism has nothing to do with free will yet some use it to support their argument for free will, that indeterminism permits choices, that unlike determinism, any option can be chosen at any time such as Libertarian free will. Within a deterministic system, the ability to predict...

No, we have the claim of free will. Different claims in fact, where we have Compatibalists with their definition, Libertarians their own, the general assumption of free will as the ability to choose any option at any given time, which contradicts Compatibilism's definition of determinism, etc...

Decision making as in a selection of an option based on a set of criteria, with the brain as the processor, where all the elements come together to produce a given decision or action. If determinism is true, the decided action is inevitable. A process of selection that may be defined as a...

I mean decisions made in a relative sense, what is done in context of the system in general, where many things happen, where someone decides to go to work, while another takes a sick day, for instance. Obviously, given determinism, each and every decision could not have been different. It's a...

Given the terms of the Compatibilist definition of determinism, it is the antecedents that determine the course of all events within the system as it evolves from past to present and future states without deviation. That is how determinism is defined. Just as you supported constant...