[ExI] Conflicting thoughts {compatibilism?}

[citta437 at aol.com]

Lee: "The "compatibilist position" which I endorse says that free will
and determinism are not really in conflict. To me, it ought rightly
said that if one makes choices then one has free will. Obversely,
one of us will be said to not have free will if he is being
compelled, and is "not free" to make his choices."
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In science, there is no attachment to thoughts, views or theories 
without evidence or proof that works. Theories of evolution and quantum 
mechanics are tested by independent studies to see if it produce the 
same result. Conflicting thoughts of free will and determinism are 
incompatible because the former has no proof of existence whereas the 
latter is proven by the laws of nature and   the evidence of evolution 
{genes}. Thoughts are processes with no permanent nature.

  Choices depend on feelings or thoughts of a self-centered ego, 
psychologically speaking, a desire to escape suffering. It is neither 
compulsion nor free will.

Terry