Talk:Free Will vs. Determinism Debate
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/