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Has a popular podcaster or news stating been saying this recently? I never heard this excuse until a few days ago and then all of a sudden it’s all over the Int
by HEmanZ 4y ago
Has a popular podcaster or news stating been saying this recently? I never heard this excuse until a few days ago and then all of a sudden it’s all over the Internet forums.
A lot of people in the west have not believed in capitol “F” Free Will for a loooong time. A huge swath of the intellectual world stopped around the time of Hume, so it’s been a central idea in the intellectual class since the American revolution. Not sure why now is different.
- kerblang 4y agoFirstly Sam Harris published a popular book deriving anti-free-will from scientific determinism, and Robert Sapolsky has also been a contributor, deriving it from baboon research and neurology. I think the American Revolution was vehemently predicated on free will, vis-à-vis liberty. Many other political agendas reject the notion of a "commoner" being able to think for themselves and seek a more restrictive society.