Is ‘free will’ a function of consciousness and identity rather than causality?

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Workshop # 19, Free Will, Series 10,
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THIS WEEK: John Searle described the lack of progress in resolving the problem of ‘free will’ as a scandal in philosophy. On one hand, the principle of universal causation holds that every event has a sufficient cause, and on the other, we feel ourselves sometimes able to act freely, beyond the constraints of external forces. Also, if there is ‘free will’, it is a product of reflective consciousness. Animals don’t have it. Moreover, we are primarily concerned with actions being ‘our own’. Can a solution to the problem of ‘free will’ thereby be found in considerations of reflective consciousness and personal identity? Reading; The Pursuit of Value, Ch. 4, Scn. iv.