David Shatz - How Can Free Will Work?

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Channel: Closer To Truth · 2016 · Education

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Assume that free will is real, not an illusion, and that the only reality is physical. How then could the will possibly be free? By what mechanism could human choice transcend the strong determinism of a closed physical world?

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