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Well, if we had "free will" in that sense, there would be something (like a soul) that is able to influence the way the neurons in our brain behave, it would need to have some sort of physical influence. It would either have to alter probability distributions or straight up violate known physical laws.
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Well, if we had "free will" in that sense, there would be something (like a soul) that is able to influence the way the neurons in our brain behave, it would need to have some sort of physical influence. It would either have to alter probability distributions or straight up violate known physical laws.
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So we have a testable theory: If free will exists, physical anomalies should be present in our brains (but not elsewhere). Gogo science!
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So we have a testable theory: If free will exists, physical anomalies should be present in our brains (but not elsewhere). Gogo science!
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Also, i never got why people are like "well if there's no free will, then the murderer is not guilty because he couldn't choose". That's absolutely a fallacy, by punishing murder you definitely have an impact on the "unfree wills" of other people (and the murderer itself). I mean, if you want to see it in the "i didn't do it, my brain did it" way, then it's just your brain that receives punishment, not you...
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Also, i never got why people are like "well if there's no free will, then the murderer is not guilty because he couldn't choose". That's absolutely a fallacy, by punishing murder you definitely have an impact on the "unfree wills" of other people (and the murderer itself). I mean, if you want to see it in the "i didn't do it, my brain did it" way, then it's just your brain that receives punishment, not you...
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Obligatory xkcd:
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Obligatory xkcd:
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[img]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/debugger.png[/img]
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[img]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/debugger.png[/img]
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And:
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And:
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[img]http://xkcd.
com/876/[/img]
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[img]http://imgs.
xkcd.
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png[/img]
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Free will