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6. I have no idea how to interpret "intent" without "free will"

Mon Jul 23, 2018, 05:13 PM

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Free will: Should the law be based on luck? [View all] Voltaire2 Jul 2018 OP

Luck and love. mia Jul 2018 #1

I, for one, do not want the notion "intent" to disappear from the law struggle4progress Jul 2018 #3

There is no reason why our laws should remove Voltaire2 Jul 2018 #5

I have no idea how to interpret "intent" without "free will" struggle4progress Jul 2018 #6

Did you try reading the article? Voltaire2 Jul 2018 #7

It is a mere platitude that our behavior has influences we cannot control. struggle4progress Jul 2018 #9

Oh ok. I guess you just have to dismiss the Voltaire2 Jul 2018 #10

To worship our own ideas, as if they were real, is idolatry struggle4progress Jul 2018 #11

Plenty of folks in both the medical/neurological side qazplm135 Jul 2018 #28

Being influenced qazplm135 Jul 2018 #27

Do people with Tourette edhopper Jul 2018 #8

This trendy "finding" by neurologists is wrong. Bretton Garcia Jul 2018 #12

free will is too simple edhopper Jul 2018 #13

Basically. Act_of_Reparation Jul 2018 #14

Exactly. Within our boundaries, we are able to decide many things. MineralMan Jul 2018 #15

Precisely. Act_of_Reparation Jul 2018 #16

Well, the structure of the human brain, MineralMan Jul 2018 #17

Gonna have to disagree there. Act_of_Reparation Jul 2018 #18

All those, too. MineralMan Jul 2018 #19

Ask, and you shall receive... Act_of_Reparation Jul 2018 #20

Or, God thought about it and said, MineralMan Jul 2018 #21

depends on who is stroking qazplm135 Jul 2018 #29

I see... MineralMan Jul 2018 #30

Ok but there is growing evidence that Voltaire2 Jul 2018 #23

I haven't read the literature... Act_of_Reparation Jul 2018 #24

First you need an operational definition of free will marylandblue Jul 2018 #25

actually qazplm135 Jul 2018 #31