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In my opinion you have made a rather egregious error in your evaluation of the issue of free will. You seem to have a dearly held pre-conceived notion that for anything to be established as true it must be proved in a laboratory. From which Mount Sinai did you receive this proclamation? In fact it is an article of faith.
The perception of every human being who has ever lived and is alive today tells us clearly that our actions are based on free will decisions. I can change the way I feel, I can change the way I behave by exercising my free will. I can decide what I... (read more)
It seems to me this would have been a wonderful prayer to pray before going into battle against an evil enemy like the Germans or Japanese in WW 2.
In his rant against intelligent design theory , Yudkowsky seems to have overlooked a simple fact. Darwinian Evolution is irrelevant to the whole discussion. Darwinian Evolution is only operative and relevant from the moment you have a DNA based organism capable of self replication. (I know that there are highly speculative theories of earlier "simpler" self replicating molecules. There is no evidence at all that they ever actually existed, and no one has ever seen one outside of a laboratory where even the highly limited ability to self replicate is a product of the intelligent design of the chemists and microbiologists involved)
Since absolutely no one has ever come up with anything... (read more)
Perhaps I should state it in a slightly different way. There is no reason for me or anyone else to doubt the clear perception we have of our own free will. Prove to me scientifically that it does not exist, that it is some kind of illusion that all human beings experience.