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View submission: Explain how compatiblism is not just cope.
If you don't want to see a reason then you probably won't see one. That is basically the way a faith based opinion works. Quantum mechanics is not going to make any sense until you abandon this premise. It has been working fine for almost a century. Heisenberg was given the Nobel prize for it in 1927 so that is about 97 years ago. Applied science didn't really get going until the 1940s so maybe 80 years if I'm being as generous as I possibly can be. Once a nuclear bomb was detonated there was no denying the veracity of quantum mechanics. Solid state electronics and nuclear reactors being used to generate electricity came later because we didn't want Nazi Germany to get the bomb before it was defeated. Therefore that drove a sense of urgency.
Comment by blkholsun at 16/09/2024 at 06:54 UTC
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I have no particular doubts about quantum mechanics, although we all know there unlikely but potential manners in which it is “secretly deterministic.” But it doesn’t matter either way. Not for lack of trying (because I used to think that I wanted libertarian free will to be true) I can see no compelling scenario where whatever indeterminacy QM gives us turns into a desirable form of free will.