
51: On Consciousness | Annaka Harris
The After On Podcast
Punishment Makes NoSense
Can we hold people responsible for their actions? The answer is definitely yes. Punishment doesn't really make sense when you see that conscious will is an illusion, he says. A brain can know that if it exhibits behavior a it will get locked away in a prison. But the things that suck about getting locked up in prison are really just experienced by the conscious self. And so why would the thing that's driving things care what happens in the conscirous selvs a toy example?
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