Can experiments settle the free will debate? | Julian Baggini, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Sarah Garfinkel
Philosophy For Our Times
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The Importance of Conspiracy in Voting
I think there's so often the problem here one of the problems here is that it's very very easy to show that we're swable and persuadable by things we're not aware of but the experiment is tend to be on trivial things are more important. I think there is some evidence that the order of the candidates on the ballot paper has a statistically significant effect on how many votes they have. Most people going into vote aren't voting for someone who they've chosen to vote for because that candidate they believe most aligns with their values. You know generalizing from these very very contrived laboratory experiments to the big important decisions on life is is a huge leap yeah as an experimentalist
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