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Free Will

I believe it was William James who said something like: "I do not believe that free will exists.  You will be better off living your life as it does exist."  In other words, live as if you have a choice. Some would say that this is living in a fool's paradise, but there isn't any proof that free will does or does not exist.  Plus, anyone who believes in today's science would be wise to read old science textbooks.  Why do you think that we - unlike every other generation of our ancestors - has it all figured out?  Why the hubris?  Do you realize that every prior generation of humans believed that their science was The Answer.  And yet... And even getting into the free will argument is amusing, because if there is no free well, then I cannot help but believe in it...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on August 22, 2010 (boomark / email).