Rational Free Will & Irrational Free Will

Rational Free Will & Irrational Free Will

Scott Adams has said, “If Persuasion could be measured [with utter scientific precision] it would be outlawed.”

Persuasion *can* be measured, to a degree. In fact, we have many decades worth of data on what makes human beings tick. The Internet (among other factors) has accelerated this process in unprecedented ways.

However, we do not have quite the level of precision, nor the data required, to *reliably* read minds or predict the future. With enough information, analysts build predictive models for behavior, but even the most robust social science or marketing study is directionally accurate at best.

Humans are irrational creatures, and therefore we maintain our sense of Free Will on an irrational basis. Pressures exist to persuade groups of people on a macro scale. Some are generated naturally, others deliberately. My commentary does not intend to argue against such truths. This video doesn’t dispute that individuals may act in a given manner via similar mechanisms, internal and external.

This phenomenon is integral to our daily lives.

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