Very Bad Wizards Episode 1: Brains, Robots, and Free Will (Free Will and Morality Pt. 1)
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Aug 30, 2012 AI Snips
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Science Reignites Free Will Skepticism
- Scientific advances like neuroscience often reignite skepticism about free will and moral responsibility.
- These advances mostly serve as reminders that humans are natural biological entities, not revealing fundamentally new information.
Free Will's Logical Impossibility
- Free will is often seen as the ability to create oneself, which philosophers argue is logically impossible.
- Moral responsibility does not require such metaphysical self-creation to be meaningful.
Intuition Shapes Responsibility
- People intuitively distinguish between actions they're responsible for and those beyond their control.
- This intuition influences beliefs about blame and praise linked to control and intentionality.