Consciousness & Mind
Is free will compatible with physical law?
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Whether deliberate agency can be reconciled with deterministic or probabilistic physics.
Current explanations
Compatibilists redefine free will to fit determinism; libertarians require genuine openness; hard determinists deny free will. Quantum indeterminacy does not obviously help.
Research progress
Neuroscience experiments on the timing of decisions are suggestive but contested and do not settle the metaphysics.
Candidate hypotheses (0)
No hypotheses are linked to this question yet.