Step outside of the room. You’ll see the world from different locations, symmetry will be broken. IDK why you’re interested in a situation that can’t happen, perfect sensory symmetry for long periods.
Free will is a contradiction in terms, so I don’t think it’s worth fussing over exactly that wording. What people ususally mean by free will is that their decisions truly affect the future. If you take “they” to refer to their brain state, this is pretty clearly true on that interpretation. I think other definitions of self are incoherent and that one is pretty straightforwardly what we mean by “me”, so I agree that “free will” in its common definition is compatible with determinism.
Step outside of the room. You’ll see the world from different locations, symmetry will be broken. IDK why you’re interested in a situation that can’t happen, perfect sensory symmetry for long periods.
Free will is a contradiction in terms, so I don’t think it’s worth fussing over exactly that wording. What people ususally mean by free will is that their decisions truly affect the future. If you take “they” to refer to their brain state, this is pretty clearly true on that interpretation. I think other definitions of self are incoherent and that one is pretty straightforwardly what we mean by “me”, so I agree that “free will” in its common definition is compatible with determinism.