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Yes, We Have Free Will. No, We Absolutely Do Not (nautil.us)

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[–] FlowVoid@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

if we add true randomness to an input-based decision, it stops being predetermined, but there's still a logically conclusive choice you're going to make, based on the incomplete inputs you have. You cannot 'freely' decide to not pick that choice

I think you are contradicting yourself. If you cannot freely choose something else, then your choice is predetermined.

Whereas if a choice stops being predetermined, then there is no "logically conclusive choice" that you are definitely going to make. There is a range of possible choices, one of them is chosen by you, and the others could have been chosen but weren't.

For example, you choose a tuna salad sandwich for lunch, but you could have chosen a ham sandwich. That choice was quite possibly not determined by logic, considerations of evolutionary fitness, or genetics. If it were, then you would probably always choose tuna salad over a ham sandwich.