PHIL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Quantum Indeterminacy, Determinism, Falsifiability
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Indeterminism: some events are not caused, they are truly random. Indeterminacy and free will: even if there is quantum indeterminacy, we might not have free will. > if choices are direct result of quantum indeterminacy, they aren"t free. Stace: an act is free if it has psychological cause. Edwards: because we did not create our characters, an action with a psychological cause is not free. Kane: we can create our own character. A businesswoman is going to a very important meeting when she sees someone being attacked in an alley. Determinism has a hard time explaining genuine inner con ict. This doesn"t seem to be true to our experience of inner con ict. Dilemmas: quantum and neurological indeterminacy can help explain inner con icts. Inner turmoil is re ected by neurological indeterminacy. The choice that a person makes is not determined by prior condition. This is a necessary condition for genuine free choice.
