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Answer any two questions
1. "Everything remains in the state in which it is if there is nothing
to change it..." Leibniz. Evaluate this claim.
2. Is the idea of altering what has already happened coherent?
3. “True autonomy 'emerges' from high fully determined complexity.” Discuss.
4. Discuss the following argument:
'Free' doesn't mean 'uncaused' - it means 'unconstrained'.
There are plenty of acts that are unconstrained and therefore free.
Therefore, determinism does not undermine our belief in human freedom.
5. Do you think that one day we might feel it necessary to punish a computer? Under what circumstances?
6. What arguments are relevant to the question of whether the course of human history is at all predictable? Evaluate them.
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