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Re:The Brain on Trial by jgroch on Sunday June 19, 2011 @12:07PM (#2671080)
What struck me was close to the opposite. The proposals in the article make me fear a future dystopia, where no one believes in free will, where the average person is degraded by a dehumanizing science. Like some science fiction horror story.
Re:The Brain on Trial by stan_rogers on Sunday June 19, 2011 @08:19PM (#2672379)
It aligns fairly well with Samuel Butler's Erewhon, actually -- and it should raise questions such as those visited in C. S. Lewis's essay The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment.