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How do you quantify this happiness? You need some objective measure if science is going to provide an answer. Say you adopt a utilitarian approach - Do you ask people 'rate your happiness on a scale...

Don't know who Petersen is but if his argument is that morality is subjective, and thus on a different mental plane from science and reason, and so the two ways of thinking can't really guide each...

To be fair, although I'm personally in objective agreement with this narrative, I wouldn't say the evidence is entirely unequivocal. And deep down I'd rather think we have free will than we don't.
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I thought your view was that you had complete control over yourself in every possible universe, and that therefore the p(Ong blinds himself with scissors) was precisely = 0.

Or are we talking...

Don't know if I would agree with that. And even if it were true, who says life needs to have a point, or that it would have one if we were free to choose our destinies. In a million years the...

Cause precedes effect in any rational model. So if the change occurs in the brain at a point in time before we have the phenomenological experience of 'will', then the latter must have been caused by...

The brain/mind is incredibly smart in some ways (e.g., problem solving) and incredibly dumb in others. It's certainly capable of interpreting reality in its own way irrespective of the true reality -...

Here's another way of looking at it - if you take out a person's visual cortex, their experience of vision is basically that they are blind. If you take out a person's dlpfc (part of the frontal...

If those brain states precede and predict the feeling of making a decision, then I would hazard to say 'yes the feeling is wrong'; your feeling of having made a decision is a phenomenological...

There are good reasons not to believe in free will, unlike the reasons to believe in free will which boil down to 'i feel like i have it'.

1. Brain activity related to making a decision occurs in...