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Persuade me: Free will is possible

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What I am looking for here, is just any reasonable explanation, or plausible description of how free will is metaphysically possible. I am not necessarily looking for proof that it is true, but just that it is something that isn't excluded somehow by some logical contradiction or other impossibility.

By free will, I am specifically referring to libertarian free will which is the ability for someone to choose something or make a decision which is free from external influence, or the ability to perform otherwise in any given decision.
At some point in the distant past, the universe went through a phase of cosmic inflation,
Stars formed, planets coalesced, and on at least one of them life took root.
Through a long process of evolution this life 
developed into the human race.
Humans conquered fire, built complex societies and advanced technology .

All of that so we can argue about nothing.
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  • xlJ_dolphin_473xlJ_dolphin_473 1712 Pts   -  
    You won't get hungover if you don't stop drinking.
    @Happy_Killbot
    This isn’t true. By taking a ‘hair of the dog’, as it is known, you are simply delaying the onset of the hangover and increasing its eventual severity. There is a myriad of evidence on the topic: you can’t prevent a hangover with alcohol, you can only delay it.
  • Happy_KillbotHappy_Killbot 5557 Pts   -  
    @xlJ_dolphin_473 ;

    That assumes you don't do anything afterword to make sure you don't get a hangover again. You can delay it long enough to get some breakfast and drink some water.

    Alternatively, you can just never stop drinking.
    At some point in the distant past, the universe went through a phase of cosmic inflation,
    Stars formed, planets coalesced, and on at least one of them life took root.
    Through a long process of evolution this life 
    developed into the human race.
    Humans conquered fire, built complex societies and advanced technology .

    All of that so we can argue about nothing.
  • @xlJ_dolphin_473 ;

    That assumes you don't do anything afterword to make sure you don't get a hangover again. You can delay it long enough to get some breakfast and drink some water.

    Alternatively, you can just never stop drinking.


    I don't actually blame you if you were to keep drinking since when you've come to the forum in the last so many days you end up witnessing bible basing preachers, Trump Lovers, Government conspiracy whackjobs, deranged and completely political polarized mindsets, trigger happy nut cases and childish trolls.



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