Dilbert free will
February 4, 2015 • 9:32 am
Why Evolution is True is a blog written by Jerry Coyne, centered on evolution and biology but also dealing with diverse topics like politics, culture, and cats.
Why Evolution is True is a blog written by Jerry Coyne, centered on evolution and biology but also dealing with diverse topics like politics, culture, and cats.
How much free will do we have? It isn’t absolute, some try to change what is free to do and what isn’t. We have limitations in our own brains and therefor our genome too. There are outliers as part of the over all aspect of our species. Most are ignored, killed, trapped or don’t reproduce. Regardless there are freedoms. Just depends on how far you will go. Psychopaths usually because of lack of empathy with anyone else do things most people would not do. Even Dilbert had a head injury and became a psychopath for awhile. Doing things that didn’t bother him even though he knew it should but didn’t care.
I like the analogy of the free choices a rat has in a maze. Is that free will to choose within limitations set up by others?