Category: free will

Alan Alda on Free Will and Science Aug 2014

Hawkeye Pierce gets it. In this interview with Robert Sapolsky from Stanford, they talk about the illusion of free will. This interview is pretty good too.

Finally Published My Book About Philosophy. Dec 2011

The book is called “The Three Illusions” and it looks at science and philosophy. It’s my guide for living with what I call “permanent peace” and the philosophy…

No Illusions 22 – News Roundup for March 15, 2011 Mar 2011

Show notes for this episode: A Different Perspective on Fukushima from Atomic Insights by @atomicrod Atomtronics, Or Atoms Spun By Laser Beams, Could Replace Electronics Glenn Greenwald: WH forces…

The Maze Of Free Will Jul 2010

Galen Strawson is a British philosopher and literary critic who works primarily on philosophy of mind, metaphysics (including free will, panpsychism, the mind-body problem, and the self), John Locke, David Hume and Kant. Like I have argued here…

Max Planck Scientists Agree With Me That Free Will Is An Illusion Sep 2009

I’ve been trying to explain to people for 20 years that free will is an illusion. I’ve covered the subject on a few podcasts, including this one and…

Free Will Is An Illusion (like God) – by Susan Blackmore Jun 2009

Excerpt: So why do we feel as though we are having a single stream of conscious experiences? Perhaps it was useful for our past survival to have a…

Genes, Neuroscience, and Free Will Apr 2009

The American Enterprise Institute recently held a panel discussion about free will. I’m listening to a recording of it at the moment. Unfortunately, none of the panelists seems…

Particles Have “Free Will”? Mar 2009

clipped from www.princeton.edu The gist of it is this: They say they have proved that if humans have free will, then elementary particles — like atoms and electrons…

GDay World Live 001 Mar 2009

I did my first (well, first in a long, long time) GDay World Live show on uStream tonight and it was a lot of fun! Thanks to everyone…

Perfect Timing and Inches Feb 2009

I’ve been thinking tonight…. that it’s all about INCHES. Okay… so I stole that line off of Al Pacino and Oliver Stone, but it’s been in my head…