Hi @zyx066 , your argument against the deterministic neuro-psychologists is basically that they don´t believe in their own theory. But punishing a child for misbehavior is not necessarily admitting a free will, but just preventing misbehavoir next time. It is just being aligned with the evolutionary beneficial (but nevertheless illusional) concept of free-will, because societies believing in a free will and taking responsibilities for the own behavior work better than societies with nobody taking responsibilities. And a childs brain punished for misbehavior will sort of re-wire and next time it would tend to comply - even without a free will.