RE: Free Will, Free Won't?
September 17, 2013 at 4:52 pm
(This post was last modified: September 17, 2013 at 4:53 pm by Zone.)
(September 17, 2013 at 4:29 pm)ManMachine Wrote: Some recent experimental evidence (I'll dig out a reference for you) seems to show that even when we are told free will does not exist, we still make moral judgements as if it did.
There is some kind of link between social morality and free will - at least as far as our ability to attribute certain actions others take to an idea we call free will - and make judgements about those actions.
Perhaps we coming at this back to front. Perhaps the idea of free will is a necessary component of our social evolution? I've nothing to support that other than some reverse (and possibly fallacious) reasoning at this point, but it's certainly in the mix to explore as an idea.
It may be a byproduct of advanced self awareness from a complex brain, an ant wouldn't have any freewill it would just do it thang like most animals and all plants would.
