Episode 59: Tumors All the Way Down (With Sam Harris)
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The Fair Distinction Between Responsiveness and Consequences in Neuroscience
I don't think we need any more information than we had 300 years ago to dispense with the notion of free will. It's just people's intuitions shift once you start talking about things like brain tumors, he says. There is no scientific finding that will make me feel less love for my partner and all I think is that blame is an emotion that can genuinely drive the desire to find the right kind of punishment for an individual. We're just talking about cause causes that precede any possible agents self-authorship according to Tamler.
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