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Who Cares if There’s No Such Thing as Free Will?

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From Libet’s experiments to modern neuroscience, evidence keeps

mounting that our decisions might be predetermined. But even if free
will is an illusion, what would actually change? Behaviour is still
something we can modify, determinism doesn’t excuse us from consequence,
and the debate itself is practically irrelevant.

Further reading
  • On Motivation:
    • Thinky vs Non-Thinky
  • Dual-Process
    • Theories
  • Brain Waves
  • Spirituality of
    • the Mind
  • The
    • Environment is Everything
    References
    • Determinism on
      • Wikipedia
    • Fatalism on
      • Wikipedia
    • Theological
      • Determinism
    • Benjamin
      • Libet’s Experiments
    • Neuroscience
      • of Free Will
    • Agent
      • Causation
    • Compatibilism
    • Neuroethics
      • and Free Will
    • Fatalism:
      • The Idle Argument
      ...more
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      btrmt. lecturesBy Dorian Minors