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Summary: Hardly disappointing and poor...
Review: The previous reviewer completely missed the key points of this book. Dennett, whose brilliance is evident in most of his works, makes the point that free will without determinism is no free will. If your choices aren't determined, but are outside cause and effect, then they are random, aren't they? If your choices are random, then how are you effecting them? You are not, and hence have no will. The point is not whether the world is deterministic or not (even if it is, it doesn't mean it's tractable), but that it is still YOU that controls your actions, even if you were influenced. Of course you were influenced, how else do you decide something?
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Summary: It takes some intelligence to grasp this book
Review: The previous reviewer completely missed the key points of this book. Dennett, whose brilliance is evident in most of his works, makes the point that free will without determinism is no free will. If your choices aren't determined, but are outside cause and effect, then they are random, aren't they? If your choices are random, then how are you effecting them? You are not, and hence have no will. The point is not whether the world is deterministic or not (even if it is, it doesn't mean it's tractable), but that it is still YOU that controls your actions, even if you were influenced. Of course you were influenced, how else do you decide something?
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