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No. 6 Story of 2023: On Free Will, ChatGPT4 Blows Away Atheist Sam Harris

Yes, the irony here is palpable, and I’ve long been critical of Harris’s view of free will as an illusion. Read More ›
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Photo: Sam Harris, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

On Free Will, ChatGPT4 Blows Away Atheist Sam Harris

Rather than refute Harris by pointing out why his statement scores high on the irony meter, I thought I’d ask ChatGPT to do it for me. Read More ›
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Nature Reflects an Intelligent Design — But Also a Moral One

Human beings must have freedom of choice if our actions are to have any meaning beyond the impersonal and predictable outcomes governed by the laws of physics. Read More ›
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Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor: Humans Have Free Will

Dr. Egnor explains why the argument against free will is self-refuting and why he’s concluded that determinism as a theory in physics is dead. Read More ›
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Determinism: “An Irrational Rejection of Evidence”

German theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder takes even human choices to be merely an illusory experience. Read More ›

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