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Scientist, after decades of study, concludes: We don't have free will(phys.org)

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Pistcow@lemm.ee
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Why?

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unconsciousvoidling@sh.itjust.works
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If I placed a plate of fresh baked cookies on a table next to you… would you have the power to not take one?

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Pistcow@lemm.ee
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will i get twice as many if i wait?

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BestBouclettes@jlai.lu
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I think it’s mostly because everything about us boils down to chemical reactions and we have no way of controlling them. Our brains do stuff before we can realise it or without realising it at all.

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Gamma@beehaw.org
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Then he didn’t really conclude, did he 😂 his environment forced him to!

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kromem@lemmy.world
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More correct headline to what is being argued:

“We effectively don’t have free will”

It’s arguing that choices are constrained by circumstances to the point of there effectively not being much choice at all.

Not that free will doesn’t exist or some sort of claim of physical determinism.

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