Storrs McCall's branching-universe model grounds freedom in the objective pruning of future branches, entailing that ontological openness is a necessary condition for genuine alternative possibilities.
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Storrs McCall(as the originator of the branching-universe model)
A philosopher who developed a theory about how the future works—specifically, the idea that multiple possible futures exist, but some get eliminated (pruned) as time moves forward, which is what gives us free will.
necessary condition(Counterfactual analysis of causation; Mackie 1965, 1974)
A condition C is necessary for event E if E would not have occurred in the absence of C
ontological openness(Polkinghorne's interpretation of chaos theory as supporting divine action)
A genuine indeterminacy in the causal structure of the world itself, as opposed to merely epistemological limits on what observers can know or predict