[lit-ideas] Re: Do You Have Free Will?
- From: Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:26:04 -0400
It's obvious that every philosopher lives her or his life just like all
of us, worrying, planning, excusing, praising and criticising, just as
if free will were true. There is no other way to live, after all. But it
doesn’t mean they are all believers. Perhaps life happens...just
happens. And our interior stories about what it all means come after the
fact.
Science, ever peeling away from philosophy, experiments and observes and
measures and finds...that sometimes it seems that we move before our
brain sends the message to move...as though our brains are playing catch
up. This is spooky stuff and there are ethicists pondering what to do if
science proves there is no free will. What will happen if people stop
believing that they are choosing? Perhaps the scientists should keep it
to themselves. Perhaps no one would believe them anyway.
Ursula
shamelessly dipping into this conversation without having done the
requisite reading...
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