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Comment author: torekp 24 October 2015 12:43:55AM 0 points [-]

I'm with you on System 1, and that is a big flaw in the way Libet and Wegner present their results. But more importantly, on further thought, their causal diagrams are probabilistic. So possibly, you're right: our beliefs about lack of cause could be caused by an actual indeterminacy, while in an otherwise similar deterministic universe their beliefs are caused by something else. I was wrong to object to that claim.

I still see no appeal in such indeterminism, but that's another story.