Silhouette,
Don’t pop open the champagne just yet!
I realized that a compatabilist cannot believe in “free”.
What I mean by this, is that I am not free to smoke a cigarette if there cannot be cigarettes in existence …
This is determined.
In the same sense, I cannot have a thought without the equivalent of a “neuron”, whether it be an actual neuron, a photon or even dark energy.
This in no way invalidates that the monad of determinism is not compatible with self will.
It’s a monad in the sense that ANY optical illusion is a dyad, but they are integrated as one thing.
I’m arguing that the monadic truth is that the dyad that you’re quibbling over is all in the same picture (to borrow the optical illusion analogy).
The famous optical illusion of the young woman and the hag, has a person like you saying “well, it’s just the hag!” (Just determinism).
Maybe you can’t see self will at all.
A visual example of this is those pictures with the dots, and if you look at it just right, it turns into a 3D image, instead of a bunch of meaningless pixels.
Some people CANT ever see the 3D image!!
So they get defensive and say things like, “I’m just trying to establish people away from dangerous ideas but they don’t listen to me”