#blockchain, Moral Responsibility, and Free Will
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▻https://medium.com/media/108e07b7738661799cac0da17c2f67d5/hrefWhy an immutable #ledger of causal chains could be a/the solution to the hard problem of free will?In this essay (excerpt from a longer #philosophy paper) I discuss the relationship between free will and moral responsibility from a practical perspective. I recently went back to it and discovered that my solution was basically a blockchain of causal chains that would allow for shared moral responsibility without the need for free will in its various definitions. Enjoy!Moral Responsibility, necessary or obsolete?Let us assume that the concept of Moral Responsibility (MR) relies on the existence of free will, and our societies in return need Moral Responsibility to function properly. Let us formulate these relationships more (...)