The philosophical discourse of the question of free will took place before neuroscience addressed it. In their challenges, cognitive science and neuroscience address many philosophical topics, including the problem of free will. The Bhagavad-Gītā is a text of Hinduism, which adopts the doctrine from the samkhya philosophical tradition, that there is nothing independent from the elementary constituents of phenomenal reality. The Bhagavad-Gītā s key question is about free will and determinism. The Bhagavad-Gītā's analysis of the concept of freedom doesn't answer the question of free will, as neuroscientific and cognitive studies do, because it represents another dimension of human freedom. The problem of free will in neuroscience and cognitive science can be answered, with many interpretations, without a universally accepted position. The freedom that appears in modern science is freedom within causality. The aspect of freedom that appears in the the Bhagavad-Gītā and the samkhya philosophical tradition is freedom from attachment and within causality. We always think of the question of free will concerning morality and society, because free will is the basis of society, and morality is based on free will.
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