The Truth About Free Will
Neuroscience’s challenge to free will misses the point: consciousness and choice emerge from complex systems, not individual neurons.
Michael Shermer
· 9 min read
Free Will
A collection of 4 posts
Robert Sapolsky is Wrong
A new book about free will fails to offer an original argument or make a convincing case.
Stuart Doyle
· 13 min read
Against Determinism—A Brief Reply to Jerry Coyne
The unambiguous conclusion seems to be that people are better off believing in either libertarian free will (which grants us complete agency) or the intuitive compatibilism (which grants us compromised agency) that they tend to favour.
William Tomos Edwards
· 5 min read
Why We Shouldn't Bet on Having Free Will—A Reply to William Edwards
It makes no more sense to believe in a numinous “will” that subverts the laws of physics than to accept a god for which there’s no evidence. Any reforms of society should begin by accepting the unalterable truths of nature.
Jerry A. Coyne
· 6 min read