[jgroch]

What struck me was close to the opposite. The proposals in the article make me fear a future dystopia, where no one believes in free will, where the average person is degraded by a dehumanizing science. Like some science fiction horror story.

[stan_rogers]

It aligns fairly well with Samuel Butler's Erewhon, actually -- and it should raise questions such as those visited in C. S. Lewis's essay The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment.