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    Challenges→The concept of freedom must have influence on the domain of nature, despite the two domains being separated by an unbridgeable theoretical gulf.

    Causal closure of the physical domain entails that every physical event has a sufficient physical cause, leaving no causal gap for freedom to occupy.

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    • 1.Physics describes reality at its most fundamental level; if physical closure fails, we need forces outside physics, which science cannot study.
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    • 2.Neural decisions correlate perfectly with brain states; no decisions occur without sufficient prior physical causes in the brain.
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    • 3.If freedom requires uncaused events, then free choices are random, not genuinely responsive to reasons or character.
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    • 1.Causal closure is an assumption, not an empirical finding; quantum indeterminacy suggests physical events can lack sufficient prior causes.
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    • 2.Compatibilists argue freedom requires only that actions flow from one's own desires and reasoning, not that they're uncaused.
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    • 3.Physical causation and agent causation may be distinct levels of explanation, not competing accounts requiring one to eliminate the other.
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