The Uncomfortable Truth About Mind Control: Is Free Will Simply a Myth?
January 10th, 2011Decades old, basic information, but just in case…
Via: Independent:
We have vain brains; we see ourselves as better than we really are. We like to think that we exercise free will, that put into a situation where we were challenged to do something we thought unacceptable then we’d refuse. But, if you believe that, then you are probably deluded.
I make this claim, based partly on the work of psychologist Stanley Milgram. Milgram devised and carried out ingenious experiments that exposed the frailty and self-delusion that are central to our lives. He showed how easy it is to make ordinary people do terrible things, that “evil” often happens for the most mundane of reasons.
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Research Credit: latincognito
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Here’s the argument that works for me: “free will” (or more properly just “will”) must be a physical force, because, like other physical forces, it affects the state of physical objects (e.g., chemicals in the brain, which are the first non-metaphysical link in the chain of any human action); but if it is a force, why doesn’t it have any treatment in any book about physics (the scientific discipline that deals with physical forces)? Why hasn’t it been quantified (how is “will” measured? Watts? Volts? Joules?) The fact is, “Science” doesn’t go near “will” with a 10-foot pole, because there’s absolutely nothing scientific about it (other than we all agree on it — but as we all know, if we all agreed on, say, the existence of God, that wouldn’t make it so). But let’s face it, anyone who claims they truly don’t believe in free will is full of it. We all choose what we do, at least at the mundane level, and we all know that on a very deep level.
It’s fun to nail atheists with this, especially the more strident ones who like to mock believers for buying into something for which there is no “scientific evidence”. I myself freely admit to embracing irrational beliefs: I believe in lots of unscientific things, like “God”, “self”, and “will”. Funny how only the belief in that first one warrants the contempt of the geniuses at reddit/r/science.