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mk  ·  4628 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Do human beings have free will?
I have yet to watch this. But, this is one of these places where I have to wonder if we have created an imaginary problem by asking the wrong question.

That is, to ask if humans have 'free will', is to assume that 'free will' is something that is meaningful, can be understood, and can be determined.

The question is rarely "do we have something that looks like our definition of free will", but whether or not we possess it in some absolute sense. I reject the notion that any characteristic, human or otherwise, can be determined in an absolute sense (there is no example of it), and therefore, I don't see that the question can be answered, -if it is an absolute answer we are looking for. It's like asking whether or not birds can be happy. The discussion might be worth having, but no answer will be satisfactory and final.