
Adina Roskies on Neuroscience and Free Will
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Free Will
If you were going to into a bookes, 55 % odds would be still pretty good. Just being slightly better than chance tells us nothing about whether or not we could do otherwise. I think that if it were set up in a game type situation where there was some sort of reward for fooling the experimenter, it's very possible that you could reduce it to chance. It doesn't seem to me that i'm not choosing freely to have coffee ice cream. And maybe there were factors that i'mnot currently aware of that have some impact on my future choices.
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