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"In a way, in our contemporary world

view, it’s easy to think that science has

come to take the place of God. But some

philosophical problems remain as

troubling as ever. Take the problem of

free will. This problem has been around

for a long time, since before Aristotle in

350 B.C. St. Augustine, St. Thomas

Aquinas, these guys all worried about how

we can be free if God already knows in

advance everything you’re gonna do.

Nowadays we know that the world

operates according to some fundamental

physical laws, and these laws govern the

behavior of every object in the world.

Now, these laws, because they’re so

trustworthy, they enable incredible

technological achievements. But look at

yourself. We’re just physical systems too,

right? We’re just complex arrangements

of carbon molecules. We’re mostly water,

and our behavior isn’t gonna be an

exception to these basic physical laws. So

it starts to look like whether its God

setting things up in advance and knowing

everything you’re gonna do or whether

it’s these basic physical laws governing

everything, there’s not a lot of room left

for freedom.


So now you might be tempted to just

ignore the question, ignore the mystery

of free will. Say “Oh, well, it’s just an

historical anecdote. It’s sophomoric. It’s a

question with no answer. Just forget

about it.” But the question keeps staring

you right in the face. You think about

individuality for example, who you are.

Who you are is mostly a matter of the

free choices that you make. Or take

responsibility. You can only be held

responsible, you can only be found guilty,

or you can only be admired or respected

for things you did of your own free will.

So the question keeps coming back, and

we don’t really have a solution to it. It

starts to look like all our decisions are

really just a charade.


Think about how it happens. There’s

some electrical activity in your brain. Your

neurons fire. They send a signal down

into your nervous system. It passes along

down into your muscle fibers. They

twitch. You might, say, reach out your

arm. It looks like it’s a free action on your

part, but every one of those – every part

of that process is actually governed by

physical law, chemical laws, electrical

laws, and so on.


So now it just looks like the big bang set

up the initial conditions, and the whole

rest of human history, and even before, is

really just the playing out of subatomic

particles according to these basic

fundamental physical laws. We think

we’re special. We think we have some

kind of special dignity, but that now

comes under threat. I mean, that’s really

challenged by this picture.


So you might be saying, “Well, wait a

minute. What about quantum mechanics?

I know enough contemporary physical

theory to know it’s not really like that.

It’s really a probabilistic theory. There’s

room. It’s loose. It’s not deterministic.”

And that’s going to enable us to

understand free will. But if you look at

the details, it’s not really going to help

because what happens is you have some

very small quantum particles, and their

behavior is apparently a bit random. They

swerve. Their behavior is absurd in the

sense that its unpredictable and we can’t

understand it based on anything that

came before. It just does something out

of the blue, according to a probabilistic

framework. But is that going to help with

freedom? I mean, should our freedom be

just a matter of probabilities, just some

random swerving in a chaotic system?

That starts to seem like it’s worse. I’d

rather be a gear in a big deterministic

physical machine than just some random

swerving.


So we can’t just ignore the problem. We

have to find room in our contemporary

world view for persons with all that that

entails; not just bodies, but persons. And

that means trying to solve the problem of

freedom, finding room for choice and

responsibility, and trying to understand

individuality." 

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