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Neuroscientific Prediction and the Intrusion of Intuitive Metaphysics
Author(s) -
Rose David,
Buckwalter Wesley,
Nichols Shaun
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
cognitive science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.498
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 1551-6709
pISSN - 0364-0213
DOI - 10.1111/cogs.12310
Subject(s) - intrusion , free will , metaphysics , cognitive science , context (archaeology) , representation (politics) , computer science , psychology , face (sociological concept) , cognitive psychology , artificial intelligence , epistemology , philosophy , paleontology , linguistics , geochemistry , politics , political science , law , biology , geology
How might advanced neuroscience—in which perfect neuro‐predictions are possible—interact with ordinary judgments of free will? We propose that peoples' intuitive ideas about indeterminist free will are both imported into and intrude into their representation of neuroscientific scenarios and present six experiments demonstrating intrusion and importing effects in the context of scenarios depicting perfect neuro‐prediction. In light of our findings, we suggest that the intuitive commitment to indeterminist free will may be resilient in the face of scientific evidence against such free will.