Originally posted by The Thinker
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I suspect you are thinking of the will as a passive device in Alice's brain such that Alice needs to push levers or buttons to make the will do stuff. And thus you argue that the problem is just pushed back a step. But there is no such step back. Alice's will is not something that Alice manipulates/affects. Alice's will is Alice's controlling & effecting something. There's no further step. No control of control (whatever that could possibly mean).
As far as prominent LFW advocates, they just assert you have control of your will usually with no details. If pressed they might like you say some word salad that makes no sense. This is why barely 15% of professional philosophers accept LFW.
Originally posted by Joel
But there is no control since X is uncaused to cause Y.
Is that simultaneous act caused by something, or is it uncaused?
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