„I can give you an immaterial soul. I’ll give you indeterminism. It doesn’t matter. What I’m going to say is that is not going to help.
I’m going to say, in the end, what you do flows from the way you are, even in your deepest spiritual characteristics.
You’ve somehow got to get to be responsible for being the way you are. But you can’t… You can’t get back behind yourself in such a way as to be responsible for the kind of person you are.
Whichever way it goes, you’ve got to somehow have chosen it, but you can’t choose it unless you already exist as a creature who has preferences. You can’t get back behind yourself in such a way as to be responsible for the kind of person you are.
There’s a two-word Latin phrase; you can’t be causa sui. You can’t be the cause of yourself.
But you’d somehow have to get to be the cause of yourself to take fundamental ultimate responsibility for yourself and therefore for your actions that flow from the way you are, and therefore we do not have free will. I think you can’t escape that conclusion.“