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a. Is there a way to prove free will?

b. Why can't I choose not to choose? Since everything we do is a choice.

Thank you,

Jerome

October 10, 2005

Response from Peter Lipton on October 11, 2005

a. Many philosophers think that we can't even prove that free will is possible.

b. It's impossible to choose not to choose, precisely because that would be a choice. (And by the way, even if everything we do is a choice, it doesn't follow that we can choose anything.)


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