SAPOLSKY’S BOOK ISN”T ABOUT FREE WILL BUT WORLD VIEW. RE: @Robot_Sapolsky #Deter

SAPOLSKY’S BOOK ISN”T ABOUT FREE WILL BUT WORLD VIEW.
RE: @Robot_Sapolsky #Determined

The better reviews are correctly uncharitable so far. But it’s because it’s the book is not in fact about the philosophical question of ‘free will’ which asks only whether we have the capacity to choose between moral and immoral actions. That’s all the ‘free will’ debate asks. And yes we do have it. Which is why we hold one another accountable for our actions throughout mankind and throughout history. The book instead is about our World View (model) within which we exercise the free will to make moral decisions.

If I find a day to read this book through, I”ll write a solid review. But I can tell from the interviews already that he’s spewing nonsense about FREE WILL, even if he is trying to demonstrate how heavily our WORLD VIEW and therefore thoughts, words, and deeds within it, are affected by our body form, its limitations, our brain and its limitations, and the universe that we live in.

Cheers

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