Freedom of the Will – Materialism and Dualism
In the science of freedom, you explained in Totod that free will is incompatible with materialism and physicalism because there are no gaps in nature.
But you mentioned (in the opening remarks, part two. If I understood what was written there correctly) that the connection between free will and materialism is not logically necessary.
Why? After all, even before the question of where freedom can have an effect, without a transcendent "I" (dualism, or even idealism) there is no being at all that would be free. And this is a logical necessity.
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Because it is possible to have a material world in which there are degrees of freedom that allow for free choice. In our world there are certain laws of nature that are deterministic (at least on the macroscopic level), but this is not a logical necessity. It could have been otherwise. Furthermore, in our world too, determinism is not perfect (quantum) and neither is our knowledge of it (maybe we are wrong about the laws of nature?).
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