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by harmoat 2378 days ago
> Free will and determinism aren't necessarily incompatible.

How?

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Determinism just means that your decisions are the inevitable result of the past. This doesn't mean it's not your decision.

The opposite, non-determinism, means that your decisions aren't fully determined by your own past and experiences, which to me sounds like a greater violation of free will.

If "free will" is only a subjective feeling and not an objective state
If you don't require free will to be supernatural.
Right, will is a natural, deterministic feature