On Apr 3, 3:12 am, Craig Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 2, 5:05 pm, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > But the experiment didn't show there was more or less free will. It didn't > > even show > > there was any free will. It just showed that inducing a belief in free > > will changed > > performance. > > Performance in what though? Readiness to execute personal will.
Nothing in the experiment indicates the will was free in a philosophical sense, just the usual scientific sense of volition, ie conscious control or control by higher brain centres. > >It might have also shown that belief in alien abductions changed > > performance. > > No, they did controls to eliminate that. There may be other beliefs > that change people's ability to take action as well, but this study > suggests that this specific idea that we should doubt the existence of > our own free will has a negative impact on the very thing that is > being considered. > > > Either one is perfectly consistent with determinism. > > No, determinism would not allow a mention of a deterministic function > of the brain to affect the performance of that function, because then > it wouldn't be deterministic - it would be open to suggestion by > others and by ourselves. One deterministic process can affect another. Think of dropping a clock of a tall building. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
