I mostly agree but partly disagree with one point: even in a fully deterministic world without compatibilism, behaviour can be both predetermined and meaningful responses to previous actions in the world. It’s just not meaningful to say that it could have been different.
It’s also still possible to observe and reason about behaviour in such a world, and test a model about whether or not an agent’s behaviour changed after punishment or not, and form policies and act on the results (it all adds up to normality after all). Strong determinism doesn’t mean nothing changes, it just means that it couldn’t have changed in any other way.
I mostly agree but partly disagree with one point: even in a fully deterministic world without compatibilism, behaviour can be both predetermined and meaningful responses to previous actions in the world. It’s just not meaningful to say that it could have been different.
It’s also still possible to observe and reason about behaviour in such a world, and test a model about whether or not an agent’s behaviour changed after punishment or not, and form policies and act on the results (it all adds up to normality after all). Strong determinism doesn’t mean nothing changes, it just means that it couldn’t have changed in any other way.