Speaker 0: Someone else might as well be whispering the names of films in your ear for all that you did to some of them. And the same can be said for the process of choosing among the candidates that do appear even if you go back and forth between two choices for an hour, any many, many more. You can't know why you stop on the one that you finally choose. If you pay attention to how your thoughts arrives and how decisions actually get made, you'll see that there's no evidence for free will. Not only no evidence, it's impossible to make sense of the claim that free will might exist. What could it refer to forget about the physics of things?
Luke's Note
What’s the evidence for free will? Can you be have differently than you did in the past? No. Everything just appears in consciousness (thoughts, feelings, wants, memories, etc). We make up stories to create the illusion of free choice. Think of a movie. Why that movie? Where’s the freedom in that?
Speaker 0: get made, you'll see that there's no evidence for free will. Not only no evidence, it's impossible to make sense of the claim that free will might exist. What could it refer to forget about the physics of things? What, in your experience, could it refer to? Everything is simply springing out of the darkness? What will you think or intend or want, or ignore or forget? And then suddenly remember next, Our experience of being and acting in the world is totally compatible with the truth of determinism or
Luke's Note
The antithesis of free will is determinism (+ randomness), which is the philosophical theory that all events, including moral choices, are completely determined by previously existing causes. Humans can’t act otherwise than they do.