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Maybe we'll be able to finally prove that free will doesn't exist.
by plopz 9y ago
Maybe we'll be able to finally prove that free will doesn't exist.
- Afton 9y agoIt's not that it does, or doesn't exist. It's that the whole common sense notion is literally incoherent.
- QuantumGravy 9y agoReligions and denominations of the same religion won't even agree on the nature or existence of free will. Why everyone else is so concerned about the same, I don't understand. It's more philosophy than science in most discussions. If acting as if your actions had internal agency offers better chances of survival, that's a good enough fudge for nature.
- chongli 9y agoThere's no way we'll be able to do that until we have an agreed-upon definition of free will. Good luck with that. We can't even come up with rigorous definitions of many common, related words: intelligence, thinking/thought, life. Heck, we can't even define pornography! All of these ultimately boil down to "I know it when I see it". This sort of definition is not good enough for scientific inquiry. For that reason, scientists tend to avoid such questions.