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Everything you do is caused.

All of your thoughts and actions are fully caused. We cannot do anything contra-causal. If you "resist an urge" that resisting was yet another caused urge. All of our actions are just urge after urge. We do not get to pick our urges/desires before we have them. We simply have them.

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André Filho

Mar 01, 2020

Can anyone provide evidence against determinism?

LosingthePeaceofBrainStates

Jan 11, 2020

We have the freedom to either be caused or to be free.

gardik87

Feb 26, 2020

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We don't have freedom to be free, that's a tautology. We always act and behave according to our circumstances, whether as the immediate occurrence (what happens right now), or as a product of prior experience or conclusions (what is contained in memory as a footprint of the past).

The only way the freedom exist, is in the ability to perform actions and behaviors, that concord to previously constructed model of values, as opposed to necessity to act and behave contrary to that model, being forced/coerced to follow someone's model or your own lower-degree faculties (instincts).

Kenny G

Dec 20, 2019

This idea ignores the impact of consciousness when defining the agency of a sentient being, specifically humans. It is simplistic to look at the biology and attribute all urges and therefore decisions to some corresponding neural relationship, but somewhere along the evolutionary line consciousness did arise. Although we don't understand how it interacts with the physical world, it is very clear our awareness of these urges and of the cause & effect relationship of all of our decisions has lead to levels of agency within our actions.