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Scientist cant operationally define it, they cant measure it, theyre not really that much use to legal debates about free will. Now, what does it mean on the legal side . I actually think the idea of free will or what is often referred to as volitional control plays a very big part in legal systems, but i think in the legal systems, we dont mean it empirically. We dont mean it as a factual construct. We dont mean that there is actual an idea that someone has free will and has made a conscious choice and that we can somehow measure it. I think that in the criminal law, what we mean by free will...

Is a memoir and a history book. In the book you talk about your personal journey and you are very candid about your life, and you also cover new insights as a historian to the life and legacy of dr. Martin luther king, jr. What prompted you to write the book this way . Guest well, i wanted to write something for the anniversary and this is 50 years of my life and kings legacy and my life coincides with my coming of age, so part of it was to do those two tasks. I felt that my life had been connected to the king legacy, and i felt there was something about my life that needed to be told to under...

Audience could control themselves raising their hands gives me some comfort as i walk out the door, but one of the problems with the disconnect that i was alluding to earlier between how science deals with this question and how lawyers deal with this question is that you actually get a fundamental disconnect between the two systems. So you mentioned that lack of emotional control or lack of ability to control your preferences might lead to insanity, but, in fact, in most jurisdictions as you know, thats not true. After hanky was acquitted under the American Law Institute test because he could ...

Understanding that some people have less control over their preferences and desires or should we have better sentencing schemes or get rid of incarceration and come up with different models of trying to deal with punishment once we understand people have wrong selections. I think those are all interesting questions, but is there free will . Well, the fact that almost everybody in the audience raised either their right or left hand contemplated it and were quickly able to act and respond. That to me says, yes, there is. Now what do we want to do about it . Now that we understand that those of u...

Themselves raising their hands gives me some comfort as i walk out the door, but one of the problems with the disconnect that i was alluding to earlier between how science deals with this question and how lawyers deal with this question is that you actually get a fundamental disconnect between the two systems. So you mentioned that lack of emotional control or lack of ability to control your preferences might lead to insanity, but, in fact, in most jurisdictions as you know, thats not true. After hanky was acquitted under the American Law Institute test because he could not control his behavio...