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Determinism + Randomness = Freedom?

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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.

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