Study Tackles Neuroscience Claims to Have Disproved “Free Will”

[bbyrd009]

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This is important because what people are told about free will can affect their behavior.

“Numerous studies suggest that fostering a belief in determinism influences behaviors like cheating,” Dubljevic says. “Promoting an unsubstantiated belief on the metaphysical position of non-existence of free will may increase the likelihood that people won’t feel responsible for their actions if they think their actions were predetermined.”
" Study Tackles Neuroscience Claims to Have Disproved “Free Will”

 

[forrestcupp]

Pretty interesting. And I agree with what you wrote there, and that has always been my fear of teaching against freewill. One big thing to note is that neuroscience's reasoning against freewill is a lot different than any theological stance against freewill. So people arguing doctrine can't really point to a neuroscience study about freewill, because neuroscience attributes it to the environments we live in, not to a God who micromanages everything everyone does.

But I'm not going to get too deep into this because it's just fuel for a big explosion. :)