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Hartnett: Now that you’ve brought up free will, I guess I should ask you about the capacity for evil, which we generally think of as being contingent upon an ability to make choices. What is evil? Pearl: It’s the belief that your greed or grievance supersedes all standard norms of society. For example, a person has something akin to a software module that says, “You are hungry, therefore you have permission to act to satisfy your greed or grievance.” But you have other software modules that instruct you to follow the standard laws of society. One of them is called compassion. When you elevate your grievance above those universal norms of society, that’s evil.

Interview with Judea Pearl, Quanta Magazine

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Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility to find out causal relationships by systematic experiment (during the Renaissance).

Albert Einstein (1953)

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Bayseian Judea Pearl notes

Judea Pearl

[T]he law of causality, as usually stated by philosophers, is false, and is not employed in science. We then considered the nature of scientific laws, and found that, instead of stating that one event A is always followed by another event B, they stated functional relations between certain events at certain times[.]

On the Notion of Cause (1912) Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, n.s., 13 (1912-13) pp 1-26

[T]he word `cause' is so inextricably bound up with misleading associations as to make its complete extrusion from the philosophical vocabulary desirable.

On the Notion of Cause, with Applications to the Free-Will Problem Bertrand Russell, Readings in the Philosophy of Science. pp 387-407 http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/home.htm https://www.edge.org/conversation/judea_pearl-engines-of-evidence http://lesswrong.com/lw/ev3/causal_diagrams_and_causal_models/