Hektore

In order to say that the universe is entirely bound by the laws of nature you have to acknoledge that physical laws control conscious thought(which is a part of the universe), if you do then you have to reject free will. If you allow that conscious thought, and decision making as a part of that, is not controlled by physical laws then we can have free will in a universe that obeys physical law and have cause effect relationships related to free will. The randomness that exists in the universe will exist will be centered around where the things that do not have free will pass under control of things that do have free will.

Just because an object is no longer doing what it would have done had it not come under control of an object with free will does not mean that it stops obeying physical law, it simply means that the object is not determinant. The assumption that in order to have things obey physical laws the universe must be determinant I believe is a false one.

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