I voted this up before reading it carefully. As is usual, admission of having made a mistake should get an upvote—if I’d read to the end first, I’d have seen the undefined claim that you’re using a more scientific approach.
Unfortunately, I don’t seem to be able to cancel my upvote, but knocking the comment down to −1 seems too harsh.
The post in question was a plea to look at and follow the neuroscience of decision making. That was the point. Don’t worry about the straw men—just follow the science. I am actually not that interested in freewill and want to get past that to something interesting. When I carefully define how I am using a word (like freewill or like consciousness in the last post) I don’t expect to be told that I cannot use the word that way. I was taken back by the reaction, that is all. Here are a bunch of reasonable, rational, intelligent people that I should be able to converse with and they appear to avoid being sensible about neuroscience. Too bad—I can still gain from following the discussions but I cannot give anything to the group except the odd comment, now and then. Don’t worry about the up vote—I can avoid ever using it.
I voted this up before reading it carefully. As is usual, admission of having made a mistake should get an upvote—if I’d read to the end first, I’d have seen the undefined claim that you’re using a more scientific approach.
Unfortunately, I don’t seem to be able to cancel my upvote, but knocking the comment down to −1 seems too harsh.
The post in question was a plea to look at and follow the neuroscience of decision making. That was the point. Don’t worry about the straw men—just follow the science. I am actually not that interested in freewill and want to get past that to something interesting. When I carefully define how I am using a word (like freewill or like consciousness in the last post) I don’t expect to be told that I cannot use the word that way. I was taken back by the reaction, that is all. Here are a bunch of reasonable, rational, intelligent people that I should be able to converse with and they appear to avoid being sensible about neuroscience. Too bad—I can still gain from following the discussions but I cannot give anything to the group except the odd comment, now and then. Don’t worry about the up vote—I can avoid ever using it.
Clicking the “Vote up” link again should remove the vote.