Are you a compatibilist yourself? Because I expected most compatibilists to hold that we do in some important sense, though of course not the libertarian one, influence the future via our choices.
I’m not a compatibilist , and I reject compatibilism because it can’t explain that kind of issue.
Theres a standard and often repeated response made by the compatibilists here, that along the lines of “the future depends on your decisions because it won’t happen without you making the decision
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Under determinism, events still need to be caused,and your (determined) actions can be part of the cause of a future state that is itself determined, that has probability 1.0. Determinism allows you to cause the future ,but it doesn’t allow you to control the future in any sense other than causing it. It allows, in a purely theoretical sense “if I had made choice b instead of choice a, then future B would have happened instead of future A” … but without the ability to have actually chosen b.
I’m not a compatibilist , and I reject compatibilism because it can’t explain that kind of issue.
Theres a standard and often repeated response made by the compatibilists here, that along the lines of “the future depends on your decisions because it won’t happen without you making the decision ”.
Under determinism, events still need to be caused,and your (determined) actions can be part of the cause of a future state that is itself determined, that has probability 1.0. Determinism allows you to cause the future ,but it doesn’t allow you to control the future in any sense other than causing it. It allows, in a purely theoretical sense “if I had made choice b instead of choice a, then future B would have happened instead of future A” … but without the ability to have actually chosen b.