Why I hold no one to blame for the planetary predicament

[GliderGuider]

Free will could all be an illusion, scientists suggest after study shows choice may just be brain tricking itself

Free will might be an illusion created by our brains, scientists might have proved.

Humans are convinced that they make conscious choices as they live their lives. But instead it may be that the brain just convinces itself that it made a free choice from the available options after the decision is made.

The new study builds on that work and says that the brain rewrites history when it makes its choices, changing our memories so that we believe we wanted to do something before it happened.

The idea of free will may have arisen because it is a useful thing to have, giving people a feeling of control over their lives and allowing for people to be punished for wrongdoing.

This finding supports my belief that although we are all participants in the planetary predicament, no one is responsible, at fault, or to blame for it - precisely because there is no free will involved.

Humanists and progressives who are addicted to the illusion of free will hate this viewpoint, because it lets CEOs, politicians and people who don't recycle "off the hook" - i.e. it doesn't justify punishing them.

[Kip Humphrey]

1. It's our bacterial and fungal overlords, I tell you!

[GliderGuider]

4. It's less personal than that, even

If you follow a root cause analysis of the global predicament all the way down as far as you can go, you will find the Second Law of Thermodynamics and the process of Evolution by Natural Selection operating in an environment that is brimming with resource stocks.

It's hard to punish people for not breaking natural laws...

[pscot]

5. So Miley WAS right

We can't stop.

[GeorgeGist]

2. Pretty thin evidence.

So far.

[immoderate]

3. From Hitchens: "Do we have free will?" — "We Have no choice!"

--imm

[Duppers]

6. I have no choice but to blame people.

[GliderGuider]

7. !!!

[sylvanus]

8. keep making them cute lil'babies.

Guess that's why we continue to breed ourselves out of existence.