April 07, 2010
Playing with Your Determined Head

Looks like psychologists are still screwing around with just what it means to have free will, or not. Makes for a nice summary of where the field is at this time. Me, I think the experiments reveal a couple of things: a) our intellect is sophisticated, but evolved. No matter how sophisticated it may seem, if you place it in conditions which have no parallel in nature, it'll break in interesting ways and b) I can find no finer critique of exactly why things like postmodernism, Marxism, and the more extreme strains of progressivism lead not to utopia but to oblivion.

Posted by scott at April 07, 2010 06:36 PM

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