If there were no rules punishing bad behavior, it would run rampart.
The brain wouldn't have the mechanism in place to prevent this bad behavior. This is visible in kids born in the "I never lay a hand on my child" societies. Kids never learn the rules, hence they think they are free to do whatever their brains conjure up.
I'd say the concept of "free will" is a difficult one.
With all rigor, all our mental operations should lead to a predictable result. If we knew all the original conditions of a given grain (all the neurons, all the synapses, all the initial conditions), we would be able to predict the outcome. But, at the moment, we don't know them, and it seems to be impossible to know them without killing said brain.
Our will is a desire that we or our brains have. It does seem to be free from external sources... but bound to it's inner wiring which is itself, in part, dependent on all the experience gathered in one's lifetime and, in part, dependent on the individual's genetics, and also womb conditions during pregnancy; not to mention other physical on chemical trauma (i.e. head banging into some wall; consumption of drugs, etc.).
The brain wouldn't have the mechanism in place to prevent this bad behavior. This is visible in kids born in the "I never lay a hand on my child" societies. Kids never learn the rules, hence they think they are free to do whatever their brains conjure up.
I'd say the concept of "free will" is a difficult one.
With all rigor, all our mental operations should lead to a predictable result. If we knew all the original conditions of a given grain (all the neurons, all the synapses, all the initial conditions), we would be able to predict the outcome. But, at the moment, we don't know them, and it seems to be impossible to know them without killing said brain.
Our will is a desire that we or our brains have. It does seem to be free from external sources... but bound to it's inner wiring which is itself, in part, dependent on all the experience gathered in one's lifetime and, in part, dependent on the individual's genetics, and also womb conditions during pregnancy; not to mention other physical on chemical trauma (i.e. head banging into some wall; consumption of drugs, etc.).
