ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to demonstrate the naturalism is compatible with the freedom of the will. An intriguing example of a naturalist view can be found in Francis Crick’s The Astonishing Hypothesis, in which he announces not only his theory of free will but also the location in the brain of the organ of free will. A more naturalistic approach is to argue that brain processes have their origin in quantum events and that therefore the brain is ultimately indeterministic. Many philosophers of science tend to ignore the problem of free will because they think that David Hume already solved it a long time ago. In social animals presumably the brain is genetically “wired” if not for cooperation, for the capacity to cooperate. This disposition toward cooperation, made up of the “social instincts,” leads to the origin of morality in intelligent creatures.
