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Determinism + Randomness = Freedom?


Created/Updated: December 17, 2019

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  1. There’s no freedom in a deterministic universe
  2. There’s no freedom in a universe where our actions are random
  3. So why would we have freedom if we combined the two?

There are few things more “hand wavy” than this.

It constitutes a genuine faith-based claim to think, given our knowledge of the universe, that we as humans make free choices.

Written By Daniel Miessler in Philosophy

Daniel Miessler is a cybersecurity leader, writer, and founder of Unsupervised Learning. He writes about security, tech, and society and has been featured in the New York Times, WSJ, and the BBC.


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