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I am on a similar boat as you are with respect to the prospect of genomes revolutionizing health and the necessity and advantage of making it available openly (
by harigov 11y ago
I am on a similar boat as you are with respect to the prospect of genomes revolutionizing health and the necessity and advantage of making it available openly (or at least to the researchers). Right now, most of the differences in humans tend to be more biological rather than ideological. The one thing that bothers me is - are our ideological differences just because of our biological differences? It just goes back to the question of free will. If there is no free will and we are just driven by what our genes dictate, all of us end up being very similar like machines. Then we can only be different by choosing different things intentionally. Are we really mature enough to do that? I am not sure if this belongs to the topic here but something I keep thinking once in a while and would like to know what others here think.
- visarga 11y agoSelf, intentionality and free will are mental concepts, not external objects to be observed from a third person perspective and studied like atoms and force fields. When trying to apply physics to psychology, such as trying to relate determinism and free will, a mixup of language domains occurs. Free will has a first person perspective (subjectivity) that places it on a different domain than physical forces and particles which can be observed externally.