Can We Agree?
Here are a few areas of possible agreement suggested by Olivier's PSI Project.
1) Can we agree that in a deterministic causal world there would be moral competence and the moral responsibility of compatiblism. We can trace this idea back to David Hume, P. F. Strawson, Daniel Dennett, and John Martin Fischer's Semi-Compatibilism?
2) Can we agree that in a world with quantum indeterminism, that we have no control over the appearance of new information and information structures. Examples are new species that occur in genetic mutations, William James' "mental evolution" modelled on Darwin's biological evolution, and the blind variation and selective retention (BVSR) of Donald Campbell?
3) Can we agree that quantum indeterminism is the only source of ontological chance that breaks the causal chain of strict determinism?
4) Can we agree that genuinely random ideas that "pop into our heads" as James said, do not make any actions based on them random, as Karl Popper said, since we evaluate them in our decision process and are responsible for our choice?
5) Can we agree that we have no control over such random new ideas, so it is a matter of luck which ideas "come to mind?" But again, choice grants responsibility.
6) Can we agree that with two or more alternative possibilities of equal value, an indeterministic selection of any one preserves our moral responsibility? So chance centered in the decision does not destroy responsibility?
7) Can we agree that genuinely new random ideas may have occurred to us at earlier times in our lives,
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