Free Will, Science, and Religion

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Poffo, wsd, Jamie Soden, Logan Meyer, Trick Slattery, Michael Walsh and Quayd intended to talk about the connection free will belief has to our beliefs. Understanding that we don't have a free will and are not to blame allows us to improve ethically as well as think mo....

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Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and Quayd started this episode as a way to restart refutations of free will like the cohosts have done in earlier episodes. However, it became clear that part of the problem is that the public may not understand what free will has traditionally mean since the term was ....

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Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, Quayd, and Monique Lukens talk about the idea of a free choice related to recent events in politics. While this show mostly focuses on the fact that we don't have a free will and are not responsible for any choice, it's also important to see how these c....

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Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Quayd, wsdtime, Jamie Soden, and David Joseph discuss both the views of libertarians(those who say we have free will and determinism is false) and compatibilists(who say that we have some sort of free will that is compatible with determinism)....

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Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Mitch J, David Joseph, Michael Walsh, wsdtime and Quayd join in a conversation about why people believe in choice even though the term is vacuous when fully analyzed. For many people, free will is completely tied to the belief that we control our thoughts before we thi....

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Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Jamie Soden, and Trick Slattery talk about the laws of nature controlling everything that happens. For humans to claim that they have a free will is to imply that their decisions are completely immune to all the laws of physics, chemistry, and all other things that are....

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Chandler Klebs and Quayd talk about Nationalism/Patriotism and how it tends to divide humanity into separate groups which compete with each other rather than work together for all citizens of earth. This is another part of making the connection that nobody chooses their country of birth and can take....

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Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Jamie Soden, and Logan Meyer talk about some of the most confusing topics of self, consciousness, intelligence, and what things we can or cannot know. How can we know whether we are living in a matrix or the dream of a giant whale? Some things are beyond our ability to....

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Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Jamie Soden, and Logan Meyer talk about how belief in free will is most likely one of the reasons that people claim that climate change is not happening. They may feel guilty if they feel like they are being accused of destroying the planet....

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Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Quayd, and David Joseph review some recent topics including the idea behind a resource based economy, George's pantheism/accutheism, and other mysteries of the Universe. The episode is rather long, so for those who are limited in time, here is a brief description of wh....

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