Originally posted by The Thinker
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Feynman points out that, in physics, inertia has no known origin. If you claim to refute LFW on the basis that it can't have an origin other than something that causes it, then you've disproven the existence of anything. This is your fundamental mistake: you implicitly presume that existence is a predicate, like a chair, and therefore must be formed by something that preceded it.
Imo, free will can be created by giving the sentient being the power to choose, just like the original force that can do anything has the power to do it. The same way that a Creator can create a law that functions without any causation as we prove above, he could make free will to choose freely. I don't think how free will operates has to be predicated upon a causation, which by definition would make it non-free, and that's what your argument assumes from the outset: a bias that we all share about cause and effect due to the vast majority of our experiences in the physical world.
On a similar note, since I found out about it, I always felt Bell's Theorem contributed something about free will existing. I could be wrong.
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