Re: My Basic Thought On Free Will
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I consider myself a proponant of Holbach's idea of hard determinism.
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Although it was as hard to wrap my head around the philosophy in high school as it is now, Determinism makes much more sense to me than any argument I've been presented proposing free will.
A determinist believes that there are two elements to a personality: one's unique genetic make-up and one's environment up to the current point in time. If this is the case, then every decision a person makes is based only on these parameters, despite people's capacity to "make" decisions.
Creating a proof that free will exists would simply translate into proving a third element in a personality. One would find it hard to prove this third seemingly intangible boundary that may be called a "will."
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