Incompatiblism

Incompatibilism: Are free will and determinism inconsistent? To a large degree, they are, especially if free will means self-determination or free personal choice without antecedent causal input. If determinism is defined as other-determined, this is incompatible with the free agent that is self-determining. If being determined means all creatures, including humans are utterly controlled by external forces, then free will does not exist. In reality and nature, I believe people are determined more than free, but that they always exercise some free will. Individuating allows the individual's free will to grow and take over more and more as she is less controlled by natural laws, or any external force over time.