Perdie writes:
This is true. I act as if I have free will even though I "know" I don't.
Ha! Very clever! Anyway - Likewise. So straight back atya.
Perdie writes:
But it is easier to believe something when there is at least a little wiggle room. As the wiggle room gets smaller and smaller, it leads to cognitive dissonance, and there will be people who lash out.
It might well be the issue that sorts the men from the boys in terms of genuinely accepting scientific conclusions over intuitive notions.
Perdie writes:
I guess I really don't think it will affect most people's day to day activities, but I do think there are some for whom it will be extremely unnerving or even cause some to spin into depression. And I don't think all of them will necessarily be religious.
I think you are right. It
might even be the case that some turn to religion as a direct result of what they see as the nihilistic materialistic deterministic assault on everything they believe themselves to be.
The findings of neuroscience
could result in a backlash of mysticism.
(**Straggler waves his hands around in wild conjecturised gesticulations**)