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Originally posted by Mantus
I have always suspected that there was something amiss about the concept of free will. It appears to be our most precious possession yet we don’t seem to give much though to the truth of it. Then I stumbled upon an article by a certain man named B. F. Skinner which peeked my interest. Soon enough I stumbled upon hard determinism. So far I haven’t seen a single argument disprove hard determinism. It appears be the best explanation of our ability to make choices.
Hard determinism:
1. Every event has a cause
2. Every cause is also an event
3. Human behavior is an event
Thus: All human behavior has a cause
4. If an event is caused, it is not free
Thus: No human behavior is free
I.e. - free will does not exist
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The problem is, hard determinism is completely destroyed because of advances in science; namely quantum physics. The discovery of which led Einstein to exclaim "God doesn't play dice" (or something to that effect). What Qp effectively did was introduce totally random and events that did not have causes.