I'm sick of determinism. What books can convince me free will exists?
>>24686533
It doesn't exist, sorry senpai. Read about the effects of brain damage on personality.
>>24686533just forget about it
>>24686533free will is for the non-NPCs
>>24686559Read about Boltzmann brains
>>24686577>Read about Boltzmann brainsIt's just simulation theory that requires you to accept premises that are somehow even more absurd.
This is the Bible of free will. It was written for first year students too so it’s pretty accessible.
>>24686533read the Bible. determinism is debunked every time someone chooses Jesus
>>24686608cope
>>24686533Anything I wrote + Kant, Nietzsche, Bergson, etc
>>24686572NTA but no. You are cursing OP.
>>24686559You are brain damaged yourself
Freedom is not about having one's actions be underdetermined. Action that is determined by nothing would necessarily be random and arbitrary, the opposite of freedom. Freedom is the self-determining capacity to actualize and communicate the good. The biggest limits on freedom are ignorance and weakness of will.Man doesn't create himself from the aether; he is not self-moving. Neither is he wholly powerless over his own acts. One can be relatively more or less self-determining and self-governing, to the extent that one has unified oneself and is no longer ruled over by ignorance, passion, and the lower appetites.As Saint Augustine says: "...the wicked man, though a king, is a slave. And not only the slave of a single man, but what is worse, a slave of as many masters as he has vices."
>>24686848:-)
>>24686559>crass physicalist reductionismBrains are not consciousness i.e. your unconditioned awareness of the World. "Your ego" is just the body, not the true self.
>>24686533Literally just choose to believe in it. You have free will, you can do that.>y-you're just deterministically forced to think it's real! That doesn't count!1!Ok and? That means no one can ever convince me it isn't real. Checkmate atheists.
>>24686533Don't start with the soulless analytics on this question, that's for sure. They seem to think that freedom is either uncaused action (which is incoherent) or else it doesn't exist (which is a false dichotomy).
