Contesting Determinism (Robert Wright & Oliver Burkeman)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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Do You Believe in Free Will?
There's a lot of research evidence to suggest that whether or not you believe in free will impacts people's behaviour significantly. Mainly it goes in a negative direction, but there is also work which suggests it makes people more forgiving and kinder. Even daniel dennet has argued from a compatiblist place, so he's not caught in this contradictory situation of denying free will, but thinking we should claim that it exists. Bish if you dont ye yet, i would say bit differently. I den i'm not sure it affects the truth aboutFreeWill.
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