36059Y329 In the 18th century Homo Sapiens .......

Q
WAS LIKE
A MYSTERIOUS BLACK
BOX, WHOSE INNER WORKINGS
WERE TOTALLY BEYOND OUR GRASP?
Hence when scholars asked why a man drew a knife
and stabbed another to death, an acceptable answer said: 'Because he chose to!
He used his free will to choose murder, which is why he is fully responsible for his crime!'
Over the last century, as scientists opened up the Sapiens Black Box, they discovered there neither soul,
nor free will, nor 'sèlf' - but only genes, hormones and neurons that obey the same physical and chemical
laws governing the rest of reality. Today when scholars ask why a man drew a knife and stabbed someone
to death, answering 'Because he chose to' doesn't cut the mustard. Instead, geneticists and brain scientists
provide a much more detailed answer: 'He did it due to such-and-such electrochemical processes in the brain,
that were shaped by a particular genetic make-up, which in turn reflect ancient evolutionary pressures
coupled with chance mutations.' The electrochemical brain processes that result in murder are either
deterministic or at random or a combination of both - but they are never free. For example, when a
neuron fires an electric charge, this may be either a deterministic reaction to external stimuli, or
perhaps the outcome of a random event such as the spontaneous decomposition of a radio-
active atom. Neither option leaves any room for 'free will'! Decisions reached through a
chain reaction of biochemical events, each determined by a previous event, are
certainly not free. What started by coincidental chance events may also end
'that way'?! We used to call it Holy God & Satanic Devil,
but now ......


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