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Marcelo Gleiser
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Does Science Disprove Free Will? A Physicist Says No

Marcelo Gleiser notes that the mind is not a solar system with strict deterministic laws. Read More ›
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Professor Explains “How to Be a God”

Transhumanists and futurists worry about guaranteeing rights for AI technologies when they attain “consciousness.” Read More ›
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Does Superdeterminism Resolve Dilemmas Around Free Will?

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

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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If IQ Is Inherited, Is the Intellect Simply Material?

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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Austrian Court Creates Right to Assisted Suicide

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

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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Science as Oracle — “Where It Gets Weird”

The ancients had their oracles, people claiming to speak in the name of the gods — this, by divination. Read More ›
Sabine Hossenfelder
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Determinism: Smart People and an Absurd Claim

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

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 ›

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