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Why try to frame this in terms of "evolutionary advantage"? There's absolutely no reason to believe that the belief in free will is not epiphenomenal, or a spa

• ram1024 17y ago
  more importantly the concept of free will cannot be defined in the first place. you can make claims that the future is perfectly predetermined, but there is zero possible way to justify that claim to be true or false. you could also easily make the case that randomness does exist, and quantum theory would support that, but you still wouldn't be able to say that any of your actions were restricted from occuring or not. the bottom line is, you are always going to do what you chose to do. regardless of how locked in that sounds, you DID make that choice. thusly your free will was executed as good as it needs to be. analyzing it further creates no useful discussion