(August 9, 2014 at 1:28 am)Chuck Wrote:(August 8, 2014 at 9:31 pm)Cato Wrote: Second, Michael is correct in limiting the role of science. Science can help me build a nuclear weapon. Science will inform me of the consequences of deployment. Science informs decisions, but can't decide if I should build one or when and if I should use one.
That assumes you have a free will, and it is in principle beyond the reach of science to exactingly predict the outcome of what you call your free will, but not beyond you to exactingly predict you own free will.
If one does not make that assumption, then science can't help you decide only because you don't decide. But science will forecast exactly how you will imagine you have decided, and why you would delude yourself into thinking it was really your choice to decide the way you do.
In essence, absent that assumption of free will, science's role would no longer in principle be subject to that limitation.
What the fuck am I supposed to do with this?
