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Rationally Speaking #50 - Neurobabble

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The Neuroscience of Free Will

A lot of what I'm calling neurobabel occurs at the popular press level when they're interpreting neuroscientific results. Some of it occurs, I think, at the level of the neuroscientists themselves who are just sort of not quite thinking clearly about what their actual evidence is. There are several technical papers in the prominent literature where neuroscientists actually make claims about having eliminated the concept of morality or eliminating concept of free will and so on. And this is problematic for a whole bunch of reasons.

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