DonaldMcIntyre comments on Is Determinism A Special Case Of Randomness? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DonaldMcIntyre 05 May 2015 12:56:49AM 0 points [-]

I assume they are using the "physics is deterministic" assumption when they tell me our thought process is a physical process.

My OP above questions this and I speculate that there is randomness in base physics (quantum or somewhere else, maybe at macro level too when systems cross certain levels of complexity).

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 05 May 2015 09:50:25AM 0 points [-]

Some people seem to think that incompatibilist free will is definitionally the ability to transcend physics, although voluntarists don't usually define it that way. It may be a confusions arising from the fact that if physics is determimistic, an override would be needed to get incompatibilist FW.