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determinism

  • Who are you going to trust, this stack of research papers or your deeply ingrained experience of the world?

    The particles composing your brain should follow the laws of physics, but can you choose to believe that you can make no choices?

    July 29, 2024

    Frank Brown Cloud

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    Ambrose Bierce, artificial intelligence, atheism, biology of choice, biology of free will, Blaise Pascal, choice, crime and punishment, criminal justice, criminal justice reform, Determined, determinism, free action, free choice, free will, magical thinking, moral agency, neurobiology of free will, neurology, philosophy, philosophy of free will, punishing a faulty algorithm, punishment, quantum computer, quantum computing, quantum mechanics, random action, random choice, reform, Robert Sapolsky, Sapolsky, science, science of free will, science of moral choice, superposition, who has free will, will
    Who are you going to trust, this stack of research papers or your deeply ingrained experience of the world?

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