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Without Free Will How Do We Evolve?
Asking questions about the nature of evolving social justice and humanity
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Social Evolution may have its own “natural selection”
My latest musing is about all these videos and articles about the nature of “free will.”
To summarize quite quickly, some neuroscientists, thinkers, pundits, and even some just plain weirdos, assert that there is no such thing as free will.
All our actions result, the theory goes, not just from our accumulative life experiences, but also from unconscious central nervous systems that “choose” the oatmeal over the wheat cereal far faster than our thinking brain can make a selection.
Okay. I’m on board with that.
But what about giant sociological leaps? Who decides social revolutions? Collectively, do we suddenly get input, say in ancient Greece, that says, “Slavery is wrong, let’s all choose woke independence?”
These sorts of choices, social progress decisions, let’s say, are slow.
And, just as with our biological evolution, it is not a straight line or a progression…