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- I am certainly grateful that you have rehashed high school philosophy for me.
I'm actually pretty well read on the subject, and I happen to have a much more simplistic view than many people. Its not a complicated idea, and its been written about since the dawn of thought. It may be boring, but its logically unassailable. Will and choice are inseparable. Lack of will implies a necessarily nihilistic world view, and I reject that on principle. Apologies if this doesn't meet your obvious standard of excellence in philosophic thought.
Your principals really don't matter if evolution has mandated that for our particular self perpetuating system to keep making copies of it's self it must be pushed forward by animal spirits. Even a nihilist wants the pigs in a blanket. To say
- If there is no free will, then its absence has no implications, by necessity.