Free Will, Science, and Religion

Chandler Klebs and George Ortega talk about our plans for this podcast and how we will recruit cohosts and publish the recordings. We send group emails and set up Skype sessions with a variety of cohosts and talk about what is most interesting to them....

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Chandler Klebs and George Ortega talk about the logical conflict between an omniscient god who knows the future with the belief that we can freely choose to do differently than what god knows we can do....

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Chandler Klebs and George Ortega talk about why academics don't understand why free will is an illusion. Even when they do understand it, what keeps them from promoting this message? George thinks that they are unable to overcome their emotional needs to believe that things are different than what t....

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Chandler, George, Jamie, Felicia, David, and Will talk about responsibility, the criminal justice system and how the truth of our unfree will fits into all of this. We also talk about the common fears and myths surrounding the topic that keeps people from accepting the most basic truth of human will....

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Trick Slattery, George Ortega, and Jamie Soden talk about the hedonic imperative or pleasure principle. We seek pleasure and avoid pain. This is just one of many reasons we don't have a free will. People keep doing what feels good(pleasure) and try to avoid what feels bad(pain)....

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This is the premier episode. George Ortega, Trick Slattery, and Chandler Klebs talk, define some terms, and talk about why free will is impossible and how they explain it in their books they published....

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