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Free Will Is Real And You Better Believe It (philosophyofbalance.com)
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[–] arendjr@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

This is effectively Spinoza’s argument indeed, which relies on nature / the universe to be fully deterministic. As I mentioned in the post, I don’t agree with determinism though. Science doesn’t either, because as we know from quantum mechanics, reality is probabilistic rather than deterministic. So saying that everything can be determined from previous states is an assumption that is not supported by science.