“It’s only acausal if you thought that awareness is what causes movement”
Exactly, people believed that the thoughts they are aware of when making a decision to move were actually how they decided to move.
Exactly, people believed that the thoughts they are aware of when making a decision to move were actually how they decided to move.
When you examine what people actually mean when they use the term “free will” in the vernacular, they essentially mean something which affects the mind, but which is not the mind. It’s incoherent in light of the fact that the “it” that they’re referring to ceases to exist once the brain in question ceases to function.