3 More kinds of Compatibilism

So from our contradiction post, you might think that everyone accepts that things cannot both be 1) so scientifically organized that there is a cause for everything and 2) an uncaused or "free" will.


Three More Kinds of Free Will in a Determined System

A) So all people believe in the law of contradiction? Not so! This is our Un-Contradiction Compatibilism Argument, which says contradictions can happen. This is also known as wishful thinking.

B) In a different vein, science, such as the physicists who believe in Free Will that I talk to, who believe Quantum Mechanics and the like have a big part to play in this.

C) And a (new to this blog) idea: we'll call it the DY Theory because of my friend DY who first explained it to me. In academia this is closer to the "Reflex arc," whose article I am going to post in this entry.

DY believes that while our small individual decisions as a single person are caused, over time our disposition does not matter as a sort of personality or free will-over-time does.

That is, while you might not have any individual choice, you might have a greater volitional choice after a greater series of these smaller choices.

http://www.johndeweyphilosophy.com/books/john_dewey_reflex_arc_concept_psychology.html