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Determinism + Randomness = Freedom?

By Daniel Miessler in Philosophy
Updated: December 17, 2019 Created: August 6, 2013

circos-challenge

  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.


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