Perhaps the fact that Sapolsky opposes free will somehow makes his viewpoint more “scientific” in the eyes of many than the viewpoint of someone who, with equally good arguments, supports it.
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“Turtles all the way down” — infinite regress — doesn’t solve the problem that everything, as a whole, is ultimately floating on something beyond itself.
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In his view, no whole human being decides not to do something wrong or harmful. Only the brain’s prefrontal cortex, which has no opinion, does so…
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Human reason could not be open abstract truths, physicist Barr notes, if it were under the complete control of physical factors, as Sapolsky believes.
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If there is no free will, you can’t say “I didn’t do it” if sociologically, you have a higher probability of doing it than someone else might.
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Given that both Pinker and Horgan are Darwinian materialists, their coldness toward the idea that there is no free will is worth keeping an eye on.
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It appears that materialists have not been able to simply disprove free will, so Mitchell seems to be trying to shape an evolution theory to fit it.
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