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    The historical facts about Ernie's creation (being create... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The Zygote argument does not give us reason to think Bert is unfree or not morally responsible

    The historical facts about Ernie's creation (being created by a goddess, with Laplacian predictor powers, with certain intentions) are not relevant to whether Ernie acts freely 30 years later

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    Determined by historical facts(as used in debates about free will versus determinism)
    The idea that what happens now is completely controlled or caused by what happened in the past—so if you know everything about someone's origins and creation, you could predict everything they'll ever do.
    Free will (or acts freely)(as used in metaphysics and ethics)
    The philosophical question of whether you can make genuine choices of your own, or whether everything you do is determined by things outside your control like your past, your genes, or the laws of physics.

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    Laplacian predictor(Used to describe the goddess's predictive powers in Ernie's creation scenario)
    An entity with the power to predict all future events given complete knowledge of the present state, analogous to Laplace's demon

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    After all, our grounds for saying that there is no relevant difference between the two is that the historical facts about Ernie’s creation (that he was created by a goddess, with the powers of a Laplacian predictor, with certain intentions, and so on) are not relevant to the question of whether Ernie acts freely or unfreely 30 years later. If they are not relevant, they don’t provide us with reasons for thinking that Ernie is unfree. By contrast, we do have reasons for thinking that Bert acts fr

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