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criminals would be nothing more than poorly calibrated clockwork, and any conception of justice that emphasized punishing them (rather than deterring, rehabilitating, or merely containing them) would appear utterly incongruous.
There will always be some delay
between the first neurophysiological events that kindle my next conscious thought and the thought itself.
Even if the human mind were made of soul-stuff, nothing about my argument would change. The unconscious operations of a soul would grant you no more freedom than the unconscious physiology of your brain does.
Compatibilists, however, claim that determinists and libertarians are both confused and that free will is compatible with the truth of determinism.
However, the “free will” that compatibilists defend is not the free will that most people feel they have.
Compatibilists generally claim that a person is free as long as he is free from any outer or inner compulsions that would prevent him from acting on his actual desires and intention.
How can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware? We can’t. To say that “my brain” decided to think or act in aparticular way, whether consciously or not, and that this is the basis for my freedom, is to ignore the very source of our belief in free will: the feel-ing of conscious agency. People feel that they are the authors of their thoughts and actions, and this is the only reason why there seems to be a problem of free will worth talking about.