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It is always interesting to see how people talk about free will, because they very often don't have a clear idea of what the term means (even to themselves).
Most of the debate (on both sides) just seems to be people spinning out straw men, while guarding against making testable claims.
My own solution is to start with the meaning.
"Free will is that feeling we have that we do things on purpose - it is not 'that we do things on purpose', it's just the feeling that we do"
And then it is simple to answer: Yes, free will exists. You feel it, I feel it, even that epiphenomenology guy feels it.
An entirely different question is "do we do things on purpose?"
And strangely enough, the crux of that question isn't "what does on purpose mean?" but rather "who is this 'we'?".
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My work is discussed in this new @WIRED article by John Danaher | The Case for Outsourcing Morality to AI: Human judgement is notoriously fallible. As AI infiltrates more aspects of society, maybe some “responsibility gaps” are a good thing | https://www.wired.com/story/philosophy-artificial-intelligence-responsibility-gap/ | #FreeWill #FreeWillSkepticism #MoralResponsibility #Morality #AI @philosophy #society
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Free Will? A Documentary | I am one of the many philosophers and scientists interviewed in this new documentary, released just today. Also features Derk Pereboom, Robert Kane, Daniel Dennett, Heather Berlin, Massimo Pigliucci, Sean Carroll, Dan Baker, Jerry Coyne, etc. https://www.freewilldocumentary.com/watch | @philosophy #Philosophy #FreeWill #MoralResponsibility #Morality #Metaphysics #determinism #indeterminism #compatibilism #libertarianism #FreeWillSkepticism