Free Will: The Brain Injury Case

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Of course there is an argument to the analysis of free will. The Brain Injury Case consists of a person possibly getting into an accident that resulted in a brain injury that caused the person to lose some desires that they had before the accident. Say this person loved orange juice before the accident, but now that the person is all healed up, they no longer have the desire to drink their favorite beverage anymore. The brain injury caused the person to lose the desire to drink orange juice, even though he/she had loved the drink before the accident. This goes against what the traditional compatibilists say about free will because the person’s choice to not drink orange juice now was caused by an outside factor (the brain injury).

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