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Originally Posted by photon
A definitive answer to what? To the question if our actions are deterministic? Of course not, but that wasn't my question..
I asked if you would advocate deciding as a society to avoid or stop a line of scientific inquiry because the answer might fundamentally change our perception of ourselves (i.e. no free will)?
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Reminds me of a show on neuroscience and music in which Sting had his brain scanned while listening to various types of music and was asked to compose a song in his head while being scanned.
At the very end of the program Sting after learning a lot about the human brain and how it deals with creativity, music appreciation; he became a bit uncomfortable and said he worries that we'll know exactly how the brain works and it would take the wonder out of it.
I hear this a lot with all the neuroscience articles I read/follow, its obvious we are pealing back a lot of layers in the brain and it is a very uncomfortable thing in many ways to imagine we might take away some mysteries many would rather not know.
I'm one who is excited to find out what we can learn, but I certainly understand why some people are nervous about what we'll learn.