Friday, February 5, 2010

Note to David Brooks

Your article "The Morality Line" makes me think you're one of the few people to whom I should offer my thoughts about free will. I hope you'll read this.

Each of us is at any point in time the sum of his heredity and life history. An all-knowing entity could therefore, knowing this background and the details of any situation, predict our behavior. Accordingly, neither praise nor blame, pride nor shame, reward nor punishment has inherent legitimacy. I agree with the scientists you reference that we do not have free will

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