A whole bunch of scientists seem to have concluded that free will is nonsense. This hypothesis suggests that they are likely to lose out. Perhaps soon we’ll have populations big enough to test this “cooperation” hypothesis with.
Sorry i meant the qualia of free will wasn’t a useless construct, not that I thought free will was real. I think it serves similar credible signaling purposes as guilt but I don’t think “guilt” is determined in any cosmic way.
When I said these scientists might “lose out” I didn’t mean that their views would be found to be inaccurate.
Your hypothesis suggests that these scientists wouldn’t be able to cooperate as well. If there’s enough of them, then we may be able to see whether that is true.
A whole bunch of scientists seem to have concluded that free will is nonsense. This hypothesis suggests that they are likely to lose out. Perhaps soon we’ll have populations big enough to test this “cooperation” hypothesis with.
Sorry i meant the qualia of free will wasn’t a useless construct, not that I thought free will was real. I think it serves similar credible signaling purposes as guilt but I don’t think “guilt” is determined in any cosmic way.
When I said these scientists might “lose out” I didn’t mean that their views would be found to be inaccurate.
Your hypothesis suggests that these scientists wouldn’t be able to cooperate as well. If there’s enough of them, then we may be able to see whether that is true.