(July 15, 2016 at 3:39 pm)Spirian Wrote: If I am tempted to steal, and choose instead not to, then I have steered the neural impulses away from theft and toward honesty.
You haven't. You can't steer the neurons, that's nonsensical as far as I know also Libet's experiments have shown that when someone makes a decision it's made before they're even aware of it. Not only that, the neurons in your brain are causal (and if they're random then there's no determining/choice), you can't steer them out of that causal chain. So even your decision to not steal was ultimately not free. That's just how your neurons interacted with each other resulting in you having an urge to steal but going against it at the same time.
