- Mainstream science operates on the assumption of physicalism.
- Mainstream science operates on the assumption that mind/consciousness is reducible to the brain organ.
- Mainstream science operates on the principle of causation.
What follows from that is that libertarian free-will is impossible. What you're left with is determinism (and compatibilism which isn't a scientific view, but a moral one).
- Mainstream science operates on the assumption of physicalism.
- Mainstream science operates on the assumption that mind/consciousness is reducible to the brain organ.
- Mainstream science operates on the principle of causation.
What follows from that is that libertarian free-will is impossible. What you're left with is determinism (and compatibilism which isn't a scientific view, but a moral one).