Free Will, Science, and Religion

Chandler Klebs, Michael Laster, and Nick Vale go through the basics of what people usually mean by free will, why it can't exist, and the implications of understanding this and applying it to our lives....

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George Ortega, Chandler Klebs, and Jamie Soden talk about the harms of believing in free will. We also talk about religions that tend to promote free will belief and cause great harm. The important thing to understand is that we can't blame people for the harm they cause no matter how upset we might....

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Often when talking with people, we have errors in communicating. Some of this is is because of the limitations of human languages. Other times, it is due to a difference in experience and words being used differently in their culture....

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Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and David Joseph talk about punishment and how our ideas about it will change as the world starts to understand that we don't have a free will and nothing is up to us. Rewards and punishments are sometimes useful in modifying behavior but they should never be done beca....

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Chandler Klebs, Trick Slattery, George Ortega, and David Joseph talk about what the message of this podcast is and what it is not. People do not need to fear anything from knowing we don't have a free will....

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Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, and David Joseph talk about how certain words have different meanings to different people. This causes confusion about terms like free will, choice, randomness, god, etc....

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Chandler and George Ortega share their very controversial opinions about consciousness, intelligence, the illusion of self, and many other things. This was sort of unusual because most of our podcasts were about why free will is an illusion....

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The cohosts disagree about the role of consciousness in our actions and also at what point humans become conscious. George says our decisions are made by the unconscious brain before we become aware of them....

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When we know that we aren't the source of anything we do, we can no longer be proud or arrogant. We cannot brag about what "we" did any more than another robot can. However we can still be happy being what we are and doing what we do....

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George Ortega, Gary Mosher, David Joseph, Trick Slattery, and Chandler Klebs talk about the meaning of "free". We clarify what the free will debate is really about. It's not about political freedom. You must first have a constraint before the word free can have any context....

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