Very commendable Mitchell's effort to argue for the existence of free will, something I also strongly desire. Unfortunately, I am more convinced by Sapolsky's arguments. I find him like a relentless Spinoza with up-to-date science. My hope is that we will make progress in understanding what life (and therefore self and consciousness) is. These times in which every day they try to sell us that both intelligence and artificial life are already here, and we still do not know what one or the other is, it would be good that serious arguments like those of Sapolsky and Mitchell introduce sanity in our thinking.
Very commendable Mitchell's effort to argue for the existence of free will, something I also strongly desire. Unfortunately, I am more convinced by Sapolsky's arguments. I find him like a relentless Spinoza with up-to-date science. My hope is that we will make progress in understanding what life (and therefore self and consciousness) is. These times in which every day they try to sell us that both intelligence and artificial life are already here, and we still do not know what one or the other is, it would be good that serious arguments like those of Sapolsky and Mitchell introduce sanity in our thinking.