(July 27, 2016 at 11:07 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote:(July 27, 2016 at 10:55 pm)Jehanne Wrote: There are a lot of good atheistic folk who are compatibilists, and so, I think that everyone, on this question (free will), can fit into the tent.
What?!
I think consciousness isn't a mystery at all and is already explained, at some level, by what we already know about the brain. It's simply a set of functions of the brain, I believe, something evolution built into us to be better able to survive. That we make much ado about nothing, is simply a side-effect.
Sean Carroll is a compatibilist; he seems like a nice guy, a good atheist.