Who controls your mind, and does it really matter?
So this is a topic I’ve been planning to start writing on for a while and tonight seems like as good a time as any to make my first post. Determinism refers to the claim that future events result...
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Are we “enslaved” by reality?
Credit: Skedonk, via Flikr In a post last year I discussed how our intuitive, human understanding of causality appears to conflict with but does not disprove the concept of “free will”. Rather, we can...
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Actually, Free Will IS an illusion
David Copperfield. Credit: [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsMany individuals, scientists and non-scientists alike believe that Free Will exists. However, as with all extraordinary positive claims...
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Addressing the incoherence of free will
Credit: RobertG, via Wikimedia Commons(Modified by zstansfi) I feel it is important to engage in discussion of specific criticisms against my positions and to use these criticisms as a way to instruct...
View ArticleOn free will, the brain, society and Michael Gazzaniga: one is not like the...
Michael Gazzaniga recently stopped by UBC for the Quinn Memorial Lecture and I had a chance to listen in on his talk about free will, which I assume is taken from his most recent book on the topic....
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The Free Will Fallacy
I have used quite a bit of space on this blog in search for the enigma that is “free will”. This isn’t a chemistry experiment. My aim isn’t to isolate a fraction of “essence of free will” to be resold...
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