The Christian Transhumanist Podcast

Ep 20: Predestination vs Free Will

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Why do some people believe it's all determined, and others believe it's up to us? Religious or irreligious, scientist or non-scientist, transhumanist or singularitarian—people can't agree on this subject. We look to CS Lewis, Ghostbusters, the Beatles, and Jupiter's moon for answers!

  • The word Micah was looking for was "contrarian"
  • Calvinists vs Arminians
  • Singularitarians and technological determinists vs Transhumanists
  • "A similar difference"
  • Church-centric vs Gospel-centric
  • Sam Harris against Free Will vs atheism as the apotheosis of free will
  • Does believing in free will give you free will?
  • James Dobson's The Strong-Willed Child
  • Unschooling
  • The Problem of Evil is basically just the problem of parenting
  • Game Theory and the Prisoner's Dilemma
  • Blue Like Jazz, the book, and the movie scene starring Micah!
  • I Am the Walrus
  • Ghostbusters, the original, and the new all-female version
  • TULIP, the points of Calvinism
  • Calvinism as Ghostbusters?
  • The Christian theological idea that increasing unity means increasing individuality and diversity, as seen in CS Lewis, and in Teilhard de Chardin's The Phenomenon of Man
  • Using our free will to increase other's free will
  • How God imposes limits in order to increase free will in the future
  • Finite and Infinite Games (see also Micah's take on Infinite Morality)
  • The origins of the term Catfishing
  • Alternative educational approaches
  • Google's 20 percent time
  • Is the end result of religion the creation of Heavenly robots?
  • Revolution is followed by Orthodoxy, just as wakefulness is followed by sleep
  • Orthodoxy is the struggle to maintain the revolution
  • For example: "All foods are clean!" followed by the Greek Orthodox fasting schedule of 200+ days per year
  • Micah's wardrobe follows the Steve Jobs approach—wear the same clothes everyday, like a cartoon character
  • Boundaries as minimum operating conditions for an open-ended future
  • Does Europa's hidden ocean disprove the existence of God?
  • CS Lewis' science fiction trilogy shows how a Christian imagination can encompass a much larger universe
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