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Scientist concludes: "We don't have free will" (www.latimes.com)
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[–] charonn0@startrek.website 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

“The world is really screwed up and made much, much more unfair by the fact that we reward people and punish people for things they have no control over,” Sapolsky said. “We’ve got no free will. Stop attributing stuff to us that isn’t there.”

Kind of a weird to ask us to do/not do something in this context, isn't it?

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

He had no choice but to ask, it's not his fault that it's weird.