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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
January 19, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Big Think, brain states, criminal justice, free will, Hannah Arendt, Marcelo Gleiser, materialism, neuroscience, propositions, quantum physics, Sam Harris, totalitarianism, truth}

Does Science Disprove Free Will? A Physicist Says No

_{Michael Egnor
January 19, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Marcelo Gleiser notes that the mind is not a solar system with strict deterministic laws. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 18, 2022

Categories
Ethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial intelligence, creativity, deification, dog, free will, God, gods, human responsibilities, human rights, humans, metaethics, morality, murder, reality, software, The Matrix, transhumanism}

Professor Explains “How to Be a God”

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 18, 2022

Ethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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Transhumanists and futurists worry about guaranteeing rights for AI technologies when they attain “consciousness.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
January 5, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, beliefs, determinism, free will, John Bell, laws of nature, materialists, nature, physicists, quantum mechanics, Sabine Hossenfelder, universe}

Does Superdeterminism Resolve Dilemmas Around Free Will?

_{Michael Egnor
January 5, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences

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The conventional view of nature held by materialists is that all acts are wholly determined by the laws of nature. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 3, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Benjamin Libet, determinism, free will, illusion, Jerry Coyne, materialism, matter, mind, neuroscience, propositions, quantum mechanics, researchers, The Guardian}

Trying to Disprove Free Will Shows that Materialism Doesn’t Work

_{Michael Egnor
May 3, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind

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The fact that nature is not predetermined in detail has been shown quite convincingly by the experimental confirmation of Bell’s theorem in quantum mechanics. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 28, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, Aristotle, body, brain, breathing, DNA, free will, intellect, intelligence, memory, mind, nervous system, philosophers, soul, Thomas Aquinas, vision}

If IQ Is Inherited, Is the Intellect Simply Material?

_{Michael Egnor
April 28, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind

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The widely accepted heritability of IQ — between 57 percent and 80 percent in twin studies — is strong evidence for the materiality of the intellect. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 20, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abuse, assisted suicide, Austria, courts, free will, Germany, Humanize, legislators, rights, suicide}

Austrian Court Creates Right to Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 20, 2020

Bioethics, Medicine

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A bit ago, Germany’s high court created an absolute right to commit suicide and the concomitant right to have help in making oneself dead. Read More ›

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Date
December 7, 2020

Categories
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, biophysicists, Cornelius Hunter, David Hume, determinism, free will, ID the Future, initial conditions, Ludwig van Beethoven, Mike Keas, natural law, podcast, Sabine Hossenfelder, Science, universe, William Shakespeare}

Determinism: A “Bizarre Position” Held by Scientists “with Great Confidence”

_{Science & Culture
December 7, 2020

Physical Sciences, Physics

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If it’s true, then all one says or thinks — right or wrong, true or false — was determined some 13.8 billion years ago. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 22, 2020

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atheism, biophysicists, Cornelius Hunter, determinism, free will, Jerry Coyne, Sabine Hossenfelder, scientism}

Science as Oracle — “Where It Gets Weird”

_{David Klinghoffer
October 22, 2020

Physical Sciences

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The ancients had their oracles, people claiming to speak in the name of the gods — this, by divination. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
October 22, 2020

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Big Bang, brains, David Hume, determinism, evolution, free will, humans, illusion, knowledge, laws of nature, miracles, particles, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Sabine Hossenfelder, St. Paul, theoretical physics, truth}

Determinism: Smart People and an Absurd Claim

_{Cornelius Hunter
October 22, 2020

Physical Sciences

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Why should Sabine Hossenfelder think for a moment that anything that occurs to her has any correspondence to truth? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 21, 2020

Categories
Fine-tuning
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, abstract thought, brain states, Brian Miller, determinism, Discovery Institute, Evolution News, free will, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Journal of Theoretical Biology, materialism, Michael Egnor, neuroscience, Sabine Hossenfelder, Stephen Meyer, thought, Wilder Penfield, will}

Fine-Tuning, Free Will — Now We’ve Got Two Challenges for Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder

_{David Klinghoffer
October 21, 2020

Fine-tuning, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Physical Sciences, Physics

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She acknowledges that she is speaking from outside one relevant field. Can you really use physics to deny free will while ignoring neuroscience? Read More ›