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... which is not precisely an argument against free will. Imho it's a close cousin though.
... which is not precisely an argument against free will. Imho it's a close cousin though.
To me, lack of free will isn't a problem as long as there aren't entities that can (or will) take advantage of that. It feels like worrying about the heat-death of the universe (appropriately enough).
Stepping back though, it's a voyage of inquiry and discovery and subsequent changes in civilization. None of that challenges free will, any more than fMRI does in our world. We have peered into the brain, and seen electrical signals that we don't understand. When we die, these go away, never to return.
(ob not xkcd: stimulus, response, stimulus response. Don't you ever think?)