Mind Versus Soul: What Mechanical Turk Results Can Tell Us About Free Will

Do you have a soul? Even if you do, psychologists say, free will is a conscious choice.  This is nothing new. Religious people of 400 B.C. debunked atomic determinism because they believed in free will, just like they debunked genetic determinism of the early 20th century. To scholars, there has always been a difference between mind and soul but an article in Consciousness and Cognition rehashes ancient metaphysical arguments and use results from  Amazon Mechanical Turk volunteers to do so, which means it is not a representative sample. read more

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