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rityPOWER POINT:
Slide 1: A mixed tragedy
* 2054
* Spiraling murder rate
* A group of defective babies are born probably from hallucinogen contact
Slide 2:
* These are (for some reason) able to see future murders in the present
* Most die (as this makes everyday life somewhat challenging)
* BUT 3 REMAIN…
Slide 3:
* Arthur, Dashiel and Agatha
* They are sedated and plugged into a machine
* And a rapid response ‘Pre-crime’ dept is created
Slide 4: It’s wonderful
* Murder rate falls to almost zero
* Failure rate is said to be zero, how would you know?
* Because it’s murder and it’s America, prison space is not a problem
* Everyone (apart from the pre-offenders) is happy
Slide 5: There’s a paradox…
Slide 6: But then…
* The precogs predict an upcoming murder
* With Tom Cruise as the murderer
Slide 7: Anyway long story…
* Cruise is faced with his sons killer (or someone that has been paid to pretend…)
* But…
* He does not kill him
* Raising a massive question
Slide 8: On the one hand…
* Experiment
* Free will appeared to be an illusion
* Which is weird because we all think of ourselves as free
* At least metaphysically
Slide 9: What we usually think
1. Decision
2. Volition/will
3. Finger moves
Slide 10: But in the Libet experiment…
Copy hình não: action part of the brain is what functions first!
One or two seconds before you ‘decide’ or ‘will’ to
Slide 11: Determinism
* Everything you do is caused by something
* And that something is probably a lot of things
* We do not choose for all that affects us to do so…
* So a bit like the dominoes last year…
Slide 12:
* Thing is…
* Look at each of these steps
* You won’t find free choice in any of them
* Do you control 1 step back?
* 10 steps?
Slide 13:
* Says that every ‘choice’ you have ever made…
* Wasn’t one
* It’s just a response to stimuli, it could...