Category: Neuroscience & Mind
Artificial Intelligence and the Language Barrier
If you have a few free minutes, try, for fun, filling them with Google Translate.
Jerry Coyne: “Reason Is No Different from a Kick”
The boundary between free will denial and impairment of reality-testing is difficult to discern.
Causation and the Free Will Debate
Consider the analogy of playing a lottery.
Without Free Will There Is No Justice
Of course Manson acolyte Leslie Van Houten chose to kill, just as millions of law-abiding people choose not to kill.
More on John Searle and Free Will
A reader cites Searle’s books Rationality in Action and Freedom and Neurobiology, contending that he is in fact a defender of free will.