CO SCI 136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Randomness, Mycelium, Compatibilism
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Standard objections to free will: determinism objection: all events are caused, and our action are pre-determined. The paradox of free will: tend to be just after peaks but there are many of them. Jo et al not always a button press when there is increase/decrease in eeg fluctuations. So readiness potential not always determine action- conscious control, button presses. Your genome, upbringing, all the past and memories. If they are not a historical agent; the individual has no self for a guide: how does a historical agent (intentional) create actions that escape its history in a self- Illusions- perceptual illusions, not free to change what you see, construe: addictions , slavery/prison, cognitive biases. Confirmation bias: the tendency to only look for, recognise and remember. Impact bias: the tendency to overestimate the length or the intensity of a feeling. Change one of the dissonant factors (we all die anyway, who cares about health) dissonance.
