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View submission: Explain how compatiblism is not just cope.
Determinism does not *miss* the fact that we have conscious thought processes, it just relegates them to the same status as everything else in existence, which some people find unpalatable
It is "unpalatable" because it doesn't hold up in science. Some people find denying science unpalatable. I for one think denying science is untenable, scientifically speaking.
It says that your logical thought processes, your imagination, your sense of inner self, your personal attributes, all of that, is made all of the same stuff and subject to the same physical processes as everything else.
Yep that is physicalism pretty much in a nutshell and this premise renders proven science inexplicable. The science works fine. The US and Russia have nuclear arsenals that are more than sufficient to send this planet back to the stone age if it is habitable at all. Nuclear power plants work. Solid state electronics works. Quantum mechanics is fine. Quantum gravity not so much. Physicalism would be dead if not for scientism keeping it on life support. Lies keep physicalism alive. We can make up any story we want but not every story holds up in established science, and determinism is just one of those stories. Physicalism is another. The big bang is another. The James Webb Space Telescope allows us to see so far, if determinism was true, then these galaxies are too old to have be formed by the big bang according to how long ago it was assumed to have happened. The BBT has failed twice so far and good 'ol scientism is keeping it alive.
There's nothing here!