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THERE FREE WILL?

Marco Iacoboni, a professor in the Faculty of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, in his book "Mirror neurons - How to understand what others are doing" (Basic Books Bollati, Torino, 260 pp., 2008) describes forms of unconscious imitation of people who interact socially and neurobiological mechanisms of reflection due to the "mirror neurons", recently discovered. These data, he says, "robotics suggest a biological difficult to control, which could delegitimize the classical view of an autonomous capacity to take decisions on which free will. "

Perhaps we should review the concept of free will, so prevalent in our society. If our actions are automatic and not the result of free choice, then it falls on our concept of administration of justice based on punishment of the guilty, because there is no guilt. may be penalties, but only as a deterrent, without pretending to give a "pay ". Cade also most religions, largely based on repentance for the" sins "committed and the belief of another life after death, where the "good" would be "rewarded" and "bad" would be "punished." But if there is no accountability, there is not even deserve to reward or to expiate guilt. Good and evil exist, however, as useful or harmful behaviors, respectively, for society and for increasing the first and second cut is needed especially education and instruction.

Carlo Council

Freewill

difficult problem that involves the very possibility of an authentically human life and success. You know, the problem is been addressed since the beginning of Western philosophy and, therefore, is one of those dualisms in which he struggles from 2500 years of our civilization. As the body-mind, a man-god, matter-spirit and so on. So it seems clear that we can not face a similar problem having a chat. But I think that also serve a chat, or rather that we should always start from these, that is the daily reality, which is the reality, if you do not want to take on an aura cattedratica and esoteric. I do not know of mirror neurons, but it is known that the genome, the genetic code provides for a determinism that seems to exclude any freedom. But we already knew that, in the end nothing is originally ours, even our bodies, but even the words, meanings, and the world that embodies, in things, the meaning is changing and changing with us. The world and man of the Pharaoh - Pharaoh and humans are different from the world of 2008. Pharaoh certainly could not have thought of "cogito ergo sum" and the duality contained therein, and the cat was different from today, was a god. With all due respect for cats. I would say that reality has a transient deterministic.

Then we are free? Obviously not, if freedom is that we do not conditional. Do not we decide to be born, let alone live in a world that goes on without us. But one thing is what we do and another is as we do. While we can not decide what to do , which depends on countless experiences that are transmitted and intersect creating us and the world, we are called to how to do it the way to do it. Here I believe lies the whole of our ethical responsibility and therefore the freedom that is a prerequisite. That resides in the way we deal with the opportunities that present themselves and determine us. The moral validity of our making and therefore of our human truth depends on the ability to co-respond to the opportunities of experience, that is to live up to, to process and transmit.

Among the endless possibilities of expressing the work No That 57 of the Beethoven Appassionata, in other words "how to" play it, there is one that grows better with the world of this pianist and one of his listeners which they approach him with the musical experience "pre-prepared ". means to live up to assume the "responsibility", this is ethic expression.

Fabrizio Rendina

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