Thomas Nadelhoffer over at Flickers of Freedom (where I will be guest-blogging in August!) drew my attention to Peter Unger's 2002 paper in PPR, "Free Will and Scientificalism." Whatever you might think of Unger's recent interview, this is a cool paper, one that I think sits very well--at a very broad level--with the new theory of reality I defend in, "A New Theory of Free Will."
In essence, Unger suggests that physicalism ("Scientifical Metaphysics") may be incomplete--that the physical world of quantities/relations may well be built out of qualities (something I think is absolutely correct)--and that true, libertarian free will may well be the result of us fundamentally being infinitely nested qualities (i.e. conscious, self-determined freedom "all the way down"), something that I think fits very well with my Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Simulation Hypothesis: the hypothesis that quantum mechanics, the mind-body problem, problem of free will, etc., are all the result of the world fundamentally being a massive, infinitely nested functional equivent of a peer-to-peer simulation where consciousness itself is a basic "hardware" component.
Anyway, whatever you might think of Unger and his interview, it's an interesting paper!
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