Free will: Sci Am survey (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, January 16, 2015, 05:00 (3600 days ago) @ romansh


> Rom: But seriously - I am surprised that the number of non believers is so high. The last number I remember seeing was amongst philosophers and was nearer 16%.
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> But to be fair the majority believed in compatibilist free will ... which really should not count.-I don't have much of a philosophic background, and I know you favor strict definitions, but all I accept is that despite the constraints of the function of neurons, I fell I can make free will decisions all the time. I am not a determinist by any stretch. I think Libet's original findings have been overturned. I assume then I am sort of a compatibilist, and actually I really don't care. I am so simplistic as to go by what I feel I experience.