thats because they dont want to allow for free will.
Free will cannot exist, for it to truly exist it would need an indivisible agent able to make decisions. Indivisible agents might very well be incoherent concepts. The very moment the agent becomes divisible, it opens the door to internal causation. To be truly free you need to be free not just from external causes but from internal causes as well. If a mindless component is the origin or start of a causal chain that lead to your action, it wasn't truly yours. You need to be componentless to be able to be free, and as said that might not be coherent.
A mechanical clock even if it was freed from external influence, well it wouldn't be free, it's hands move as a result of internal components interacting and producing the motion. Random or deterministic, even if you entailed the illogical possibility of neither random nor determined, so long as you're composed of mindless components whose interactions determine your actions, so long as that is true you're not free.-source link
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