Is the such a thing as free will? Do we really have full control over our own actions? Or do the current circumstances dictate what we choose to do? — Wolff
All of these circumstances are also influencing each other, and it is the summation of all of these influences that determine the action that we will make. You might be a person that usually plays it safe and doesn’t take a lot of risks, but because all of the circumstances are in a certain way right now you decide to finally enter for that study course you’ve been putting off for years now. If the circumstances where different, like if you where not in the same financial situation or you didn’t have certain past experiences that tell you it’s important to try and improve yourself, you might have been putting it off for even longer. Or if you would have to decide on something else, that is less important to you than these studies, you would not take the same risk and play it safe like you normally do. — Wolff
With all these factors from the past and the present influencing us, and many more we are not even aware of, where does free will come into play? — Wolff
Influences are not the same thing as causal determinants.
What's influence ontologically? Or, what's the difference between causal determinants and influence ontologically? — numberjohnny5
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