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Free will and human agency
Compare philosophy, religion, neuroscience, and physics on whether free will is real and what agency means.
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Is free will real?
Across disciplines, free will is rarely viewed as absolute, uncaused independence, but rather as a localized capacity for participation within a broader web of causality—whether neural, computational, or divine. Traditions broadly converge on the necessity of an 'internal mechanism' or structural space for agency to operate, yet sharply diverge on whether this requires fundamental physical indeterminism (as in quantum physics) or whether it perfectly aligns with strict determinism (as in Stoicism and information theory).
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