Gregg Caruso puts the case against free will (ft. Nate Frederick)

Gregg D. Caruso is Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Corning, Visiting Fellow at the New College of the Humanities (NCH London), and Honorary Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University. He is also Co-Director of the Justice Without Retribution Network housed at the University of Aberdeen School of Law. His research focuses on free will, moral responsibility, punishment, philosophy of law, jurisprudence, social and political philosophy, moral philosophy, philosophy of mind, moral psychology, and neurolaw. His books include Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice (2021), Just Deserts: Debating Free Will (w/Daniel C. Dennett) (2021), Free Will and Consciousness: A Determinist Account of the Illusion of Free Will (2012), ​Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility (2013), Science and Religion: 5 Questions (2014), Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience ​(co-edited w/Owen Flanagan); and Free Will Skepticism in Law and Society (co-edited w/Elizabeth Shaw and Derk Pereboom).   http://www.greggcaruso.com/

LYRICS:



Careful of the friends you have

Remember you can choose

You may not like their attitudes

But in time you'll share their views



Everything gets past around

From attributes to vice

If you accept their company

You'll soon take their advice



You are the average

Of the five people

With whom you spend most of the time



You are the average

You only know what you've been taught

You think your culture's thoughts



You look around the place you work

With an expression of disgust

At people who you'll never be

There's no one you can trust



But take a look from a little bit up

You already look the same

You're blending in quite perfectly

You fit inside the frame

You fit inside the frame



You are the average

Of the five people

With whom you spend most of the time



You are the average

You only know what you've been taught

You think your culture's thoughts



Even you ambitions

What you want from life

Can be enabled or destroyed

By your husband or your wife



Your friends can help you be a better person

Or lead you on the path to sin

You might think you can rise above it

But in time you will sink in

In time you will sink in



You are the average

Of the five people

With whom you spend most of the time



You are the average

You only know what you've been taught

You think your culture's thoughts