With the attention being given this fall (11/2023) to the book Determined by neuroscientist Robert Sopalsky, who insists that we are biological machines with not free will, it is important to provide arguments in support of free will.
I saw one online that I thought I would share; the great Jewish thinker, Maimonides, offered that because God exists, and God set up heaven and hell, God would not bother if humans did not wield free will, and incur moral responsibility for their choices and actions picked by them. This is a theological defense of free will, and I find it appealing.
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