I'm interested in teasing out these thoughts with you, BFK. I feel like they've come up in a number of separate contemporary threads.
Another question: If you/we don't have
Free Will, then why do we wish we do? What is the evolutionary purpose for wanting a
Free Moving Soul? The fact the idea is so disturbing that we may not have
Free Will is evidence that we do.
When we finally are able to create an artificial human brain ( not just any brain, but sup together the stuff and build an actual human brain - let's say for example an exact copy at first before we're able to simply cook one up ), I bet the "person" would be unable to really behave like a human and would be awkward and not really experience physical pain as a human does, etc. They would not be "natural" and wouldn't sport
Free Will. Scientists still don't know why the brain yields consciousness, nothing about it physically explains it. Something is amiss, more than just what we can determine physically about the brain.
If we don't have
Free Will, then we're not guilty of crimes or responsible for our decisions.