Free will and culpability before the law

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Poll question: Free will and culpability before the law

Bjorn Brembs does free will experiments on fruit flies,
his mentor is biologist Martin Heisenberg, son of physicist Werner Heisenberg,
Werner Heisenberg discovered the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.

http://bjoern.brembs.net/news.php?item.806.5

Free will and culpability before the law

The next speaker at this meeting here was Reinhard Merkel, professor of law at the university in Hamburg. He started with the distinction between different kinds of freedom. He started with the distinction between different kinds of freedom. He cited Kant, but only as a reference to what e was not going to talk about. Instead, he emphasized freedom as the absence of inevitability. Colloquially, he referred to this concept as PAP: "principle of alternative possibilities", i.e., 'I could have done otherwise'.

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In conclusion, this was a very interesting and very eloquently presented talk, albeit with very little new content. It helped to better understand things I had already read about - the usual effect of someone actually explaining something in person, rather than with just words. I thoroughly enjoyed this presentation and it definitely helped to consolidate what little I had previously learned about the topic of culpability and the law. I'm looking forward to the podium which will start right after the Q&A after this presentation.

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1. So far, 2 votes total, both for "don't know" - and I haven't voted myself ...

I may vote "don't know" myself ... still thinking about it ...

[Adsos Letter]

2. I voted "other." After all, I could'a had a V-8.

:D

[rug]

3. The various mental states required to be convicted under the law is fascinatin stuff.

But this blog entry was pretty muddled. Maybe it's me.

[LAGC]

4. Yep, the OP is just posting random non-sensical spam to show her disgust with this forum.

She probably wishes she could shut it down completely, since it makes religious people look so bad.

[rug]

5. One thing about this forum, it exposes ridiculous pap.

And that's hardly confined to religious people.

[LAGC]

6. Perhaps so.

You do a better job being fairly objective about which articles you bring to everyone's attention though.

Unlike certain other posters whom I will not name...