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Originally Posted by Dharma & Greg
For free will to be meaningful and worth having a word to describe it it would have to give humans the ability to make decisions free of any kind of influence which amounts to breaking the laws of the universe. Ergo magic.
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What if free will is partial and a component of predetermination?
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Originally Posted by Dharma & Greg
Free will is the ability to get punched in the face and then punch the other person back, rewind time, get punched in the face and then write a novel or sing "La Macarena" or just punch back with your other arm. If you rewind infinitely but you still perform you same action after being punched then free will doesn't exist.
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Which brings us back to the falsifiability question.