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Philosophy/science (cosmology/nanotech/genetics...), climate change, the dangers of religion, insignificance/shortcomings of mankind, communication/psychology, songwriting/composition, performing arts

An idea worth spreading

Free Will and Responsibility are incoherent, unnecessary and harmful concepts

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Any of my passions (described elsewhere). Free Will and Responsibility.

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• A comment on Conversation: How are different body parts connected to the emotions we traditionally associate with them?

  Mar 23 2012: Great discussion!
  
  Let's see:
  * Most of the brain is used to control processes in the body
  * These parts of the brain are largely interwoven and -linked with the parts involved in thinking and feeling
  
  It would be a wonder if there WASN'T any correspondence between these areas.

• A reply on Talk: Questions no one knows the answers to

  Mar 13 2012: Succinctly put, Andrius. Actually, I think there IS an answer to this question: The common definition of Free Will is logically incoherent - no such thing can possibly exist. Of course, one can argue that we LIVE OUR LIVES as if we have Free Will anyway, so the "truth" doesn't matter. But I think these arguments are important in the context of praise- and blameworthiness - those concepts go out the window when Free Will is nullified.