The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.
Corliss LamontTags: science determinism nature will laws-of-nature neuroscience brains cause-and-effect lack-of-free-will causally-determined no-free-will
Which do you think is more valuable to humanity?
a. Finding ways to tell humans that they have free will despite the incontrovertible fact that their actions are completely dictated by the laws of physics as instantiated in our bodies, brains and environments? That is, engaging in the honored philosophical practice of showing that our notion of "free will" can be compatible with determinism?
or
b. Telling people, based on our scientific knowledge of physics, neurology, and behavior, that our actions are predetermined rather than dictated by some ghost in our brains, and then sussing out the consequences of that conclusion and applying them to society?
Of course my answer is b).
Tags: science knowledge determinism society philosophy nature physics ghosts brains neurology laws-of-physics illusion-of-free-will
When I read these books, I no longer felt like I was confined to a very tiny world. I no longer felt housebound and bedbound. Really, I told myself, I was just brainbound. And this was not such a sorry state of affairs. My brain, with a little help from other people's brains, could take me to some pretty interesting places, and create all kinds of wonderful things. Despite its faults, my brain, I decided, was not the worst place in the world to be.
Gavin ExtenceTags: science inspirational reading books brains
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