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Determinism + Randomness = Freedom?
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There’s no freedom in a deterministic universe
There’s no freedom in a universe where our actions are random
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.