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Do You Have Free Will?
Your brain decides before 'you' do. So who's driving?
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Determinism
Determinism is the philosophical view that every event is the inevitable result of preceding events and the laws of nature.
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Laplace's Demon
Laplace's Demon is a thought experiment about a hypothetical intellect that knows the exact position and motion of every particle in existence.
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Block Universe
The block universe theory treats time as a fourth dimension where past, present, and future events are all equally real and fixed.
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Fatalism
Fatalism is the view that fate fixes every event, so no choice can change it.
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Benjamin Libet
Benjamin Libet was an American neuroscientist who studied human consciousness at the University of California, San Francisco.
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Libertarianism (metaphysics)
Metaphysical libertarianism is the view that we have free will, so determinism is false: you could have chosen otherwise.
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Compatibilism
Compatibilism is the belief that free will and determinism can exist together without contradiction.