The physiologist Benjamin Libet famously demonstrated that activity in the brain's motor regions can be detected some 300 milliseconds before a person feels that he has decided to move. Another lab recently used fMRI data to show that some "conscious" decisions can be predicted up to 10 seconds before they enter awareness (long before the preparatory motor activity detected by ...
The physiologist Benjamin Libet famously demonstrated that activity in the brain's motor regions can be detected some 300 milliseconds before a person feels that he has decided to move. Another lab recently used fMRI data to show that some "conscious" decisions can be predicted up to 10 seconds before they enter awareness (long before the preparatory motor activity detected by Libet). Clearly, findings of this kind are difficult to reconcile with the sense that one is the conscious source of one's actions. The question of free will is no mere curio of philosophy seminars. A belief in free will underwrites both the religious notion of "sin" and our enduring commitment to retributive justice. The Supreme Court has called free will a "universal and persistent" foundation for our system of law. Any scientific developments that threatened our notion of free will would seem to put the ethics of punishing people for their bad behaviour in question.In Free Will Harris debates these ideas and asks whether or not, given what brain science is telling us, we actually have free will?
自由意志像个默认事实，认为自己能控制自己的想法、行动，但深挖下去，你并不知道你为什么选择做这件事或是产生这样的想法，于是最终这个问题变成Where is the freedom in that? Sam Harris的观点真的很counterintuitive，读的时候就不断要把自己的思路扭过来，还要再好好想一想。
Man can do what he will but he cannot will what he wills. -- Schopenhauer The theme of the book is disconcerting at best: Dr. Harris if not completely refutes the notion of free will in this little book of his, does certainly raise a serious contradiction ...
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0 有用 Miyabi 2023-06-04 20:39:06 广东
结论一致，但觉得写得比较水
1 有用 Dhamma G闭关中 2019-10-24 10:54:50
好短，车轱辘话转来转去没什么内容。做入门看还行。
0 有用 笑一步是好青年 2012-07-22 00:35:06
嘤嘤，好看的啊！！
0 有用 芝麻小元宵 2018-06-06 22:22:28
自由意志像个默认事实，认为自己能控制自己的想法、行动，但深挖下去，你并不知道你为什么选择做这件事或是产生这样的想法，于是最终这个问题变成Where is the freedom in that? Sam Harris的观点真的很counterintuitive，读的时候就不断要把自己的思路扭过来，还要再好好想一想。
1 有用 初繁言 2021-09-06 16:40:27
是谁在学校教科书书架上看到了sam harris嘲笑了他一顿后回头又把人书看了一遍？是我啊，那没事了。这一点小事翻来覆去水字数+儿童读物的篇幅就敢出版成书卖钱的厚脸皮儿能力我也想拥有……><不过读的时候想到了一点可以写成东西的东西，在这个层面上我竟要感谢harris了，真是太不容易了。