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    A desire unconstrained by external causes is insufficient... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→An action can be inevitable and yet still be a free action.

    A desire unconstrained by external causes is insufficient for freedom if the space of possible choices was always causally or logically closed.

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    • 1.Freedom requires alternative possibilities; if all choices were predetermined, no genuine alternative existed regardless of desire absence.
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    • 2.Internal desires alone cannot constitute freedom if the desire-formation process itself was causally necessitated from prior conditions.
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    • 3.A closed causal space means even 'unconstrained' desires are outputs of prior causes, making the agent merely a conduit, not an author.
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    • 1.Freedom might require only acting on one's own desires without external impediment, not metaphysical openness of the choice-space itself.
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    • 2.Causal closure of possibility-space doesn't entail the agent lacks freedom if the causal chain constitutes their authentic deliberation process.
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    • 3.Requiring 'unclosed' possibility-space for freedom may be incoherent: any actual choice, free or not, closes alternatives retrospectively.
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