Sylvano

“we must make a distinction between those who are morally competent and those who are not. This, I have long held, is the fundamental pivot; this is the variety of free will worth wanting.”
― Daniel C. Dennett, Just Deserts: Debating Free Will

“One could in fact interpret this list as a subtle way of saying that the only way of “freeing oneself” from the debt was not literally repaying debts, but rather showing that these debts do not exist because one is not in fact separate to begin with, and hence that the very notion of canceling the debt and achieving a separate, autonomous existence was ridiculous from the start.”
― David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years

“And then, at some point, actors emerged on this stage. Simple lifeless components were somehow assembled into forms that held themselves apart from these general happenings and instead acted on the world. Entities that do things came into existence.”
― Kevin J. Mitchell, Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will

“The suggestion that the fundamental logic underlying these methods is broken should be terrifying.”
― Aubrey Clayton, Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science