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Originally Posted by David Maybe free will, and certain other characteristics of consciousness (appreciation of qualia, etc.) are equivalent to axioms!
In other words, unless a theory contains these 'axioms' (I know I am using the term a bit loosely) it describes a zombie universe in which nothing conscious can exist. |
Well, it's pretty unsatisfying to consider them axioms. And in the case of libertarian free will, it's incoherent, so axiomatizing it doesn't help.
~~ Paul