Free Will Is An Illusion, But Freedom Isn’t
Ching-Hung Woo says freedom is compatible with choices being determined.
Wiggle room? What possible wiggle room could there be in a world where these very real Frenchmen and Styron creating the fictional character Sophie were never able to not choose what nature compelled them to choose.
What does it mean to absolve anyone of anything if everything that anyone ever does is “set in stone” by the immutable laws of matter?
Ever and always: What are the compatibilists saying here about “freedom” in a determined universe that I keep missing? What am I but compelled to presume that I am compelled to keep missing.
How were Nazis and the French Resistance, Nazis and the very real Sophies at the camps not interchangeable in a universe where the Big Bang is said to have set into motion these laws of matter? Again, unless in a way not fully understood, the matter we call the human brain is somehow the exception. Re God or re the very nature of matter itself in a No God world.
Right, like we are any more free to adopt the absence of coercion than the absence of determinism. We may think “in our head” that we have gotten out of the conflict, but that is only another manifestation of the psychological illusion of freedom. At least insofar as I have come [compelled or otherwise] to construe hard determinism.