Photons, Quasars and the Possibility of Free Will

Re:Photons, Quasars and the Possibility of Free Will by lordlimecat on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @09:18AM (#18608336)

I'd define free will as used by the average person to mean the ability to make decisions that are based at least in part on something other than your makeup and environment.

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Re:Photons, Quasars and the Possibility of Free Will by davemp on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @09:32AM (#18608464)

I'll go poll the world and get back to you to see if you align ;)

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Re:Photons, Quasars and the Possibility of Free Will by naasking on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @10:11AM (#18608844)

Already been done. They do not: https://philpapers.org/rec/ANDWCI-3

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Re:Photons, Quasars and the Possibility of Free Will by coldtea on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @11:11AM (#18609527)

Or so says a paper. Assuming no methodological errors and replication, in which Psychology (this being posted in "Philosophical Psychology" is a very bad culprit, and stats/polls even more so).

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Re:Photons, Quasars and the Possibility of Free Will by naasking on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @11:12AM (#18609540)

Let's be fair, it's more than one paper. That's just the latest in a whole series of papers empirically testing lay people's intuitions on this question (see the citations).

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