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    If we genuinely could not do anything about the future, p... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→We cannot do anything about the future.

    If we genuinely could not do anything about the future, practical reasoning and intentional action would be incoherent, yet they are not.

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    • 1.Practical reasoning requires assuming our deliberation causally influences outcomes; otherwise deliberation serves no function.
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    • 2.We successfully coordinate complex activities (medicine, engineering, parenting) by planning futures; this success demands real causal efficacy.
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    • 3.The universality and non-pathological nature of practical reasoning suggests it tracks something real about human agency, not systematic illusion.
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    • 1.Practical reasoning could be coherent even if determined; we deliberate about which determined future we'll cause through our determined choices.
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    • 2.The incoherence objection conflates 'unable to do anything' with 'determined.' These differ: determinism allows causal influence but denies ultimate origination.
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    • 3.An illusion can be persistent and universal without proving what it assumes; cognitive biases persist because they're useful, not because they're true.
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