Ender Tosun
2020
In this book, I tried to address important issues that relate to free will power in accordance with the Quranic teaching. An important aspect of the free will power is its irreducibility to other things and the irreducibility of the agent who exercises free will power. The irreducible and distinct agent interacts with his parts and other things. Hence, within a range, he can overcome the effects of other factors, and he can determine one of the two alternatives as the one to be acted upon. Within that range, there is nothing which can coercively prevent him from willing the other alternative. To demonstrate the free will power and its effectiveness, I followed two main paths: (1) The refutation of reductionism, determinism, and indeterminism: I presented numerous empirical and logical arguments which show beyond doubt that these are false. This is very important, because I am convinced that the apparent paradox about free will arises because of false and unquestioned presuppositions about the truth of those isms. Their refutation is possible thanks to the alternative system of Islam related to the ontological reality and its basis. Without such a basis, refuting them might left many things up in the air. (2) Free will power negation experiments and brain observation experiments: I designed certain empirical, thought, and combined experiments which show that the free will power is distinctly effective. I addressed systematically the key points that relate to the free will power such as, the agent, his transcendence, unity, his sub-modules, their interactions, the soul, its interaction with the spatiotemporal, consciousness, the will mechanism, Libet experiments, space, time, truth, knowledge, reasoning power, responsibility, hereafter, God… Of course, I gave a definition of the free will power in accordance with the Quranic teaching which lies at the basis of this work. The only thing that free will power considers about the sets of alternatives is that they are dist
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