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Old 08-February-2008, 01:32 PM
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Originally Posted by grant hutchison View Post
On the evidence of the journalist's report, one might guess that the journalist and the researchers actually believe that science has abolished the idea of free will.
I did not get that impression from the article. I think that they mentioned science in their indoctrination of the subjects merely to reinforce in them the conviction that free will does not exist. It does not matter which statement is actually true, since what they intended to study was how beviour is influenced by what people believe.

And they may well have tried to control for "indoctrination effects" by making similar claims about the falsehood of determinism when they spoke to the "free will" group, although the term "double-blind", which I used above, is not the best for this sort of control. Mea culpa.
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