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Consciousness is subjective experience itself: the felt quality of seeing red or being in pain — what philosophers call Qualia. The "hard problem" is explaining why any physical process is accompanie…

Determinism is the claim that the complete state of the universe at one time, together with the laws of nature, fixes its state at every later time. Whether it is true is an open empirical question:…

The deflationary entry below is an argument about the word, not a truth about the thing. Useful critique, wrong genre.

Both definitions agree free will is about the relationship between deliberation and action — they disagree on whether determinism severs it. That shared core might deserve its own preamble.