https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYzFH8xqhns Two titans of their fields, Robert Sapolsky and the recently departed Daniel Dennett forcefully make their cases with respect to free will. If you aren't interested in the entire debate, and again, you haven't a hand in your interest level, just listen in at the 27:45 minute mark FOR JUST TWO MINUTES. Sapolsky's point about the socioeconomic status of one's parents (by the time a child is 5 year old) and the effect it has on the prefrontal cortex, and therefore on that youngster's later ability to do the right thing when doing the right thing is HARD should stop all thinking people in their tracks! This should upend one's views on meritocracy, blame, praise, punishment, and that god fellow who just lives to judge his creation! Life's lottery of luck must be fully acknowledged, and public policies should mitigate the vast disparities of that luck, but good luck with that! Peter T.
When Biologists and Philosophers Go At It (respectfully of course, not that they had a choice.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYzFH8xqhns Two titans of their fields, Robert Sapolsky and the recently departed Daniel Dennett forcefully make their cases with respect to free will. If you aren't interested in the entire debate, and again, you haven't a hand in your interest level, just listen in at the 27:45 minute mark FOR JUST TWO MINUTES. Sapolsky's point about the socioeconomic status of one's parents (by the time a child is 5 year old) and the effect it has on the prefrontal cortex, and therefore on that youngster's later ability to do the right thing when doing the right thing is HARD should stop all thinking people in their tracks! This should upend one's views on meritocracy, blame, praise, punishment, and that god fellow who just lives to judge his creation! Life's lottery of luck must be fully acknowledged, and public policies should mitigate the vast disparities of that luck, but good luck with that! Peter T.
