Does Indeterminism, make us any more free than Hard Determinism?

Question

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We have a winna, superprofound hit the nail on the head. Indeterminism does not make us any more free than Hard or soft determinism. The issue is not determinism but Casuality.

Answer 1

No, it wouldn't make us any more free. Indeterminism is simply the possibility of truely random and uncaused events taking place in the universe. Our decision making process that we call free will is not a random event, nor should its genesis in some random quantum-mechanical event (e.g. in the brain) make a difference to whether we call ourselves free or not. We wouldn't be "in control" of random quantum fluctuations that make up our decision making process any more than we'd be in control of the deterministic physics of the whole thing.
I think we have free will, but we should start redefining it in such a way that it could possibily exist in some possible world.

Answer 2

It couldn't make us any _less_ free. If we lived in a purely deterministic world, it could be easily argued that free will either wouldn't exist at all, or would be at best an illusion. You can still have deterministic behavior in an indeterministic world, but indeterminism allows for the freedom to choose, which is the basis for free will.

Answer 3

I wish you had defined your terms. But I'll assume indeterminism is a state that I'm often in since I retired, a state of not planning ahead much and just leaving things in the balance to equal themselves out as they will. I call it living in the moment.

Hard determinism may be that time of great drive and will to succeed at a chosen task, which I've already done for the most part, so I choose to seek living in the moment now.

As for freedom, I think it can easily be found in either way of life; all a person has to do is be ready to think new info over and be open-minded about things---to be slow to jump at but ready to bask in new knowledge. That's freedom to me.