Thinking About Free Will
You can’t escape cause and effect, but there is a way of viewing human agency that is motivating, plausible and humane.
We feel that we are free, the originators of our own choices, not just conduits through which the chain of cause and effect flows. But think about it a little more and this ‘voluntarist’ conception of free will starts to look untenable.
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