From PN:
And around and around and around we all go. Either because 1] we were never able to not go around and around and around only as we must in the only possible reality in the only possible world, or because 2] “somehow” when matter evolved into the human brain, the human brain acquired free will.
God, maybe? Or something about matter we still don’t understand going back to what we still don’t understand about the existence of existence itself?
Rummy’s Rule?
Now – click – I created this thread assuming that “somehow” the human species here on planet Earth did acquire free will. And that given this we are able to speculate about what it might be like if, instead, we lived in a wholly determined world.
Then the part where we bring what “here and now” we think about all this down to Earth and imagine Mary aborting Jane in a wholly determined world. The argument from the compatibilists that even though Mary was never able not to abort Jane, she is still responsible – morally responsible – for doing so.
How can that possibly make any sense?
As for the “here and now” part, that revolves around dasein. The fact that, subjectively, over the course of the life we lived in the past, we accumulated our own unique collection of personal experiences, relationships and access to information and knowledge. And that predisposed us existentially to think what we do “here and now” about free will.
But: that this also continues on into the future. In other words, new experiences, new relationships, access to new information and knowledge. Such that, in a free will world, we might change our minds about all this…right?
Only, in my view, the truly hardcore objectivists among almost never do. Why? Because, in my view, what they believe is so embedded in what I call the “psychology of objectivism”, that the belief itself revolves far more around anchoring their Self in one or another God or No God font. Why? Because, in doing so, they are then able to sustain the comfort and the consolation that comes with being on their very own One True Path.