Comments on: The Costs of Exposing the Myth of “Free Will”? http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/the-costs-of-exposing-the-myth-of-free-will/ Sat, 18 May 2013 14:35:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ada,m Benforado http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/the-costs-of-exposing-the-myth-of-free-will/#comment-22852 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:55:16 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/?p=13233#comment-22852 That’s a fascinating quotation — and from one of my favorite novelists (I’m especially fond of Amsterdam and Enduring Love). Thanks!

]]> By: Cameron Brick http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/the-costs-of-exposing-the-myth-of-free-will/#comment-22850 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 18:39:05 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/?p=13233#comment-22850 Thanks for the article. The idea about sandwiches reminds me of a quote on free will I’ve long enjoyed by novelist Ian McEwan:
I see no necessary disjunction between having no free will (those arguments seem watertight) and assuming moral responsibility for myself. The point is ownership. I own my past, my beginnings, my perceptions. And just as I will make myself responsible if my dog or child bites someone, or my car rolls backwards down a hill and causes damage, so I take on full accountability for the little ship of my being, even if I do not have control of its course. It is this sense of being the possessor of a consciousness that makes us feel responsible for it.

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