Free Will, Science, and Religion

Chandler Klebs, Jamie Soden, David Joseph, and George Ortega talk about what consciousness is and why it is not the same thing as having a free will or making choices. We may also need to expand our idea of who or what is conscious....

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Chandler Klebs, Jamie Soden, David Joseph, and George Ortega talk about the different compatibilist definitions and why they do not defend the free will people believe in, but rather they define free will in ways that allow them to say that your butt farted of its own free will and blame a plant for....

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Chandler Klebs and George Ortega talk about why your life can have just as much meaning or possibly even more under the no free will understanding. The meaning of life is not something we choose but we can certainly find meaning in our lives even though we understand we are not in control of it....

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Chandler Klebs and George Ortega talk about the belief in god relevant to free will and how theology might change for theists. Chandler is atheist and George is pantheist, but we have a serious talk about how it might affect people globally....

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Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, Jamie Soden, David Joseph, and Brad Stansell talk about what things will change in our thinking as people understand that free will is an illusion. One of them is that nobody owns anything at all because they didn't create anything....

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Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, Jamie Soden, Anthony Bishop, David Joseph, and Brad Stansell talk about why governments and other rich people blame the poor for their poverty. This injustice is already a problem, but it is also proven irrational when people are proven not to be respon....

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Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, Jamie Soden, Anthony Bishop, David Joseph, and Brad Stansell refute free will and explain why this knowledge is the biggest thing ever! John Searle, the 13th ranked post-1900 philosopher, says that our world overcoming the free will illusion "would be a....

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Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Jamie Soden, and Anthony Bishop talk about some of the things that people say which reveals they don't truly believe we have a free will that can override our nature and nurture....

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Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and Jamie Soden talk to our new cohost Anthony Bishop. Anthony understands that we don't have the control over our brain chemistry that free will would require. Sleeping pills, caffeine, and all kinds of food and drugs alter our brain chemistry constantly....

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Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and Jamie Soden talk about how the belief in free will causes people to feel guilty and go into denial about something rather than admit they made a mistake and change. George explains the difference between the good cop and bad cop approach to talking to criminals..

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