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Jul 26, 2016
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rdslw on
Why do so few humans kill themselves?
This question is much more interesting when you realize that modern neuroscience is (slowly) going more and more into area that there is no free will in humans.What is a reason to live if they are not your decisions driving it? Skipping over all (judical etc) consequences, if this is true, then life has no sense and it's more/less ok to end it - what's funny, suicide would also not be your (as in free will) decision... Meaning this is a time bomb programmed into any thinking brain (and any AI as, what's double funny, this logic also applies to any AI).
Dodge that homo sapiens :)
⬐ dragonwriter> This question is much more interesting where you realize that modern neuroscience is (slowly) going more and more into area that there is no free will in humans.Science inherently approaches the universe in a way which leaves no room for materially meaningful "free will"; only strict material determination and randomness.
⬐ idanoemanI don't think the scientific method is inherently materialistic - it's just that our most validated theories about how the world work are materialist.
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Apr 11, 2015
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staunch on
Ask HN: What kind of philosophy do you read?
If you haven't already read them, Sam Harris' Free Will and Moral Landscape are totally worth reading.
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Jul 22, 2012
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paraschopra on
Don’t Jump to Conclusions About the Killer
We respond to external stimuli in a unique way, true. I'm not saying free will does not exist, but YOU as an agent do not have that will. It's actually a combination of genes + historical feedback loop between environment and you. When you are asked to pick between a color (red or green), on what basis do you pick that color?The recent book on Free Will by Sam Harris: http://www.amazon.com/Free-Will-Sam-Harris/dp/1451683405 is relevant here.