Free Will

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It remains an open question of whether we have Free Will or not.

Context

  • The laws governed by the current model of physical reality seem to be deterministic, which has led some, like Standford neurobiologist Robert M. Sapolsky to say "we have no free will at all". [1]

Solution

It really doesn't matter what we call it, Free Will or computational irreducibility (a la Stephen Wolfram} it makes no difference.

The law assumes we have Free Will and so punishes us if we transgress the laws the of land. It's hard to imagine that we would change that.

References

  1. Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will Penguin Press