But for the people that aren't very familiar with these terms, can you maybe explain what we mean by the deterministic view?

view?Yeah.

Yeah, and you're exactly right.

There are a lot of people who think of the problem of free will as, are you gonna choose free will, or are you gonna choose determinism? Which assumes that there's these two things, and you have to be in one of the camps, and also that they are sort of exclusive of one another.

So, um, you, you can't be both a determinist and a free will.

You can't think of them as compatible.

But actually, um, the sort of central debate in the philosophy of free will is the question of whether free will and determinism are compatible with each other or incompatible with each other.

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