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Scientist, after decades of study, concludes: We don't have free will (phys.org)

submitted 1 year ago by btp@kbin.social to c/science@mander.xyz

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[–] Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"The world is really screwed up and made much, much more unfair by the fact that we reward people and punish people for things they have no control over," Sapolsky said.

If there’s no free will, there’s no such thing as “fair” or “unfair.” Things just happen, and we’re powerless to change them.

"We've got no free will. Stop attributing stuff to us that isn't there."

If I have no free will, I literally can’t stop doing that.

The problem with arguments against free will is they generally need to implicitly assume free will exists to even have a discussion about it.