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McGinn I 135
Freedom/domestication theory/indeterministical/McGinn: Thesis: only an acausal model could meet the freedom modality.
If you say the actor was able to act otherwise, one must believe that a repeat would not lead to a decision that would be determined.
(Accordingly some are of the opinion, freedom must be rooted in quantum indeterminacy.) E.g.

Eccles/Popper: Thesis: Random events at the subatomic level in the brain are responsible.
See >Eccles/Popper.

McGinnVsEccles/McGinnVsPopper: desperate responses to problems of the first type: randomness on the deepest level is required. Then the actor is quasi a passive victim of quantum leaps.
Both types of explanation are not satisfactory, the assumed similarities are distortions.

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