Episode 27: You, Your Self, and Your Brain (With Eddy Nahmias)
Very Bad Wizards
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The Moral Nature of a Voting Decision
So far we don't have any that very the moral nature of her action. I suspect you'd only get higher ratings if it were a bad action just like we've seen in other studies. The only thing we do in this is we we have a variation where they're also able to manipulate her brain activity. And unsurprisingly, when you ask whether she votes of her own free will or whether she's responsible for her vote in the manipulation case, it goes down to, you know, 20% saying yes or less. So that's important because if nothing else, it shows that it's not that people will say someone has free will no matter what. They won't say it if you
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