
168. Daniel Dennett & Gregg Caruso — Just Deserts: Debating Free Will (moderated by Michael Shermer)
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting
Free will is a topic that electrifies students and can still get the attention of lot of peple s people think it matters. What we really want is for people to take responsibility. We're not responsible for being able to control ourselves in the first place. But once you are responsible age, then you have a responsibility to maintain your self control. And i want to live in a world, secure, nonfal where people can go about their business freely and securely. They don't have to worry about being harmed by people, because people pretty well know how to control themselves. Now, that world depends on the law, depends on punishment. Nobody, not gregg nor anybody, has
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