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Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos  I don't need to define this term [free will] because I do not claim that I have it. |
How sad, poor Paul doesn't have any free will
....... perhaps I can help you .....just use your free will to become a dualist.
Paul it is not compulsory or written in the origin of the universe that Paul must be a materialist monist, you can use your free will and change opinion
Then most of the hard philosophical problems of free will dissolve.
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Various compatibilist definitions are required in ethics and the law, but those would have to be defined based on a list of factors that were not present when the decision was made. These factors would be things like heavy coercion or brainwashing. This is a practical definition, not a philosophical one.
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So you are saying we are Pinocchio puppets without control of our strings? How did a sense of 'conscience' evolve via natural selection? If, as you are suggesting, that actions are always based upon prior conditioning, what is the evolutionary advantage of 'conscience' unless we have a degree of free will?..... tell me how it evolved....or do I hear the sound of crickets?