Stanford Scientist, After Decades of Study, Concludes: We Don’t Have Free Will
MSN | 10/17/2023 | Corinne Purtill… After more than 40 years studying humans and other primates, [Stanford University neurobiologist Robert] Sapolsky has reached the conclusion that all human behavior is as far beyond our conscious control as the convulsions of a seizure, the division of cells or the beating of our hearts.
This means accepting that a man who shoots into a crowd has no more control over his fate than the victims who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. It means treating drunk drivers who barrel into pedestrians just like drivers who suffer a sudden heart attack and veer out of their lane.
“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. “We’ve got no free will. Stop attributing stuff to us that isn’t there.”
Sapolsky, a MacArthur “genius” grant winner, is aware that this is an out-there position. Most neuroscientists believe humans have at least some degree of free will. So do most philosophers and the general population. Free will is essential to how we see ourselves, fueling the satisfaction of achievement or the shame of failing to do the right thing.
So when I punch him in the face it’s not my fault – it’s simply inevitable.
… we can go online and create one for just a few bucks…
… then Peewee was lying, and Urkel was right to question it…
… then this is all just a complex simulation, and with a little reprogramming, Oppo and Mika can get together at last…
Ah, free willie!
… then a left turn at Albuquerque didn’t matter…
If We Have No Free Will, …
I blame Biden’s inflation. Everything used to be cheaper
Brought to you by the same researcher who embezzled government funding to study why pizza tastes good.
If there’s no such thing as free will, how did he decide there’s no such thing as free will? How was he made to do that study? To reach that conclusion? Did he choose it, or did someone choose it for him? Where did they get that idea?
If We Have No Free Will,
it means we have to pay for it
…then I had to respond to this, right?
… then I passed the Turing test for nothing … NOTHING!!!
If We Have No Free Will, …
then we’re all NPCs in the dopeshow.