Contesting Determinism (Robert Wright & Oliver Burkeman)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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Is Free Will an Illusion?
I think it's a way of combating, you know, the fundamental attribution error. The tendency we have to see other people's wrong doing is cor to their personalities. But here we all are and subject to the same endless causal flow going back to the beginning of time. People will feel that any choice they make is justifiable on the ground hat that they didn't really have a choice. After all, they're not as smart as we are, so we will decide what they should do.
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