None of these are free will (as commonly understood
Some believe that free will must be a tertium datur, a third thing fundamentally different to both determinism and indeterminism. This argument has the advantage that it makes free will logically impossible,and the disadvantage that hardly any who believes in free will defined it that way. In particular, naturalistic libertarians are happy to base free will on a mere mixture of determinism and indeterminism.
Another concern about naturalistic libertarianism is that determinism is needed to put a decision into effect once it had been made. If one’s actions are unrelated to ones decisions, one would certainly lack control in a relevant sense. But it is not the case that we are able to get the required results 100% of the time, so full determinism is perhaps unnecessary to achieve a realistic, “good enough” level of control. Additionally, there does not have to be the same amount of indeterminism at every stage of the deciding-and-acting process. In “two stage” models, the agent alternates between going into a more indeterministic mode to make the “coin toss” , and then into a more deterministic mode to implement it.
If you made choices (or some element of them) not controlled by your personality, experience, thoughts and anything else that comes under the heading of ‘the state of your brain as a result of genetics and your prior environments’, they would be random, which still isn’t free will
Because of the stipulative definition? Such choices can still relate to onesaims., values personality , and history.
And that is precisely why they are determined. They are determined by you
If they are determined by me and nothing else, that would be something like free will...but it’s not pure determinism, because pure determinism means everything is inevitable from the dawn of time , including my decisions. It is something you can get from a two stage theory, though.
Some believe that free will must be a tertium datur, a third thing fundamentally different to both determinism and indeterminism. This argument has the advantage that it makes free will logically impossible,and the disadvantage that hardly any who believes in free will defined it that way. In particular, naturalistic libertarians are happy to base free will on a mere mixture of determinism and indeterminism.
Another concern about naturalistic libertarianism is that determinism is needed to put a decision into effect once it had been made. If one’s actions are unrelated to ones decisions, one would certainly lack control in a relevant sense. But it is not the case that we are able to get the required results 100% of the time, so full determinism is perhaps unnecessary to achieve a realistic, “good enough” level of control. Additionally, there does not have to be the same amount of indeterminism at every stage of the deciding-and-acting process. In “two stage” models, the agent alternates between going into a more indeterministic mode to make the “coin toss” , and then into a more deterministic mode to implement it.
Because of the stipulative definition? Such choices can still relate to onesaims., values personality , and history.
If they are determined by me and nothing else, that would be something like free will...but it’s not pure determinism, because pure determinism means everything is inevitable from the dawn of time , including my decisions. It is something you can get from a two stage theory, though.