RE: A thing about religious (and other) people and the illusion of free will
November 11, 2023 at 7:09 am
Our decisions either are or are not causally determined. A prisoner is not not-a-prisoner because his cell has a window. This does not make him free to some extent. It makes him a prisoner with a window.
That's where I think we are with respect to our brain. We aren't in charge of it, we don't know how it works, all we have is the tiniest window into what it's doing.
That's where I think we are with respect to our brain. We aren't in charge of it, we don't know how it works, all we have is the tiniest window into what it's doing.
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