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    It is not the case that A player's decision is free even under eternalism, provided the decision is not causally determined.

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    • 1.Freedom requires not merely the absence of causal determination, but the existence of alternative possibilities the agent could have actualized.
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    • 2.Under eternalism, the four-dimensional block universe renders all events, including decisions, timelessly fixed and unalterable.
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    • 3.If a decision is timelessly fixed in the block structure, no genuine alternative possibilities exist, regardless of whether causal determination is present.
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    • 1.Sourcehood compatibilists and libertarians alike hold that free will requires the agent to be the originating source of their action.
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    • 2.Pereboom and Strawson argue that if the actual sequence leading to a decision is wholly constituted by factors outside the agent, sourcehood is undermined.
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    • 3.Eternalism locates the agent's decision within a fixed manifold constituted independently of the agent's deliberative stance, violating sourcehood conditions.
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    • 1.Freedom of decision requires only the absence of causal determination.
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    • 2.Eternalism does not entail that the player's decision is causally determined by past or future events.
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