/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11411790
>Why won't physicists abandon their misguided belief in free will and just accept determinism?
Why won't brainlets abandon their misguided belief that free will and determinism are mutually exclusive?

ITT: We assume free will doesn't exist and reach a contradiction

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>>10933961
>it's reality is deterministic then people have no Free will , you dumbass.

If free will doesn't exist then what's the difference between a choice made sober and a choice made when you're black out drunk?

>>10797092
>That depends what you mean by the phrase "free will". Some people think that free will is compatible with determinism, and some people think it is not, and it just comes down to how you define the word.
Free will is independent of detemrinsims.

The scientific consensus is that free will exists (see below), so the big question that remains: is reality determined or indetermined?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will#Believing_in_free_will
>Among philosophers
>A recent 2009 survey has shown that compatibilism is quite a popular stance among those who specialize in philosophy (59%). Belief in libertarianism amounted to 14%, while a lack of belief in free will equaled 12%. More than a half of surveyed people were US Americans.[214]

>Among evolutionary biologists
>79 percent of evolutionary biologists said that they believe in free-will according to a survey conducted in 2007, only 14 percent chose no free will, and 7 percent did not answer the question.[215]

>>10289265
>What if I was always destined to do that?
Then compatiblism.