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Free Will v. Determinism Common presuppositions and general topics: - The fundamentally (quantum) indeterminate nature of the physical world demands that the future cannot be determined in any meaningful way - Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem vis a vis the defeat of Logical Positivism - Newton and Heisenberg as useful and meaningful modalities Human Nature or blank slate? -> Predestination (religious arguments from Calvin vs. Arminius) -> Chompsky vs. Faucout -> The fall of behaviorism in the post-war era. - The delay in cognitive awareness from choice as measured by EEG -> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2942748/ - compatibilism links: https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/causes-laws-and-free-will-why-determinism-doesn-t-matter/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compatibilism/ http://philosophyintroduction.weebly.com/uploads/4/4/6/2/44624607/campbell_compatibilist_alternatives.pdf
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