Free Will, Science, And Religion

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Mitch J, Michael Walsh, David Joseph, and new cohost Daniel Miessler discuss new projects they have in mind to help educate people on why we don't have free will and why it's important....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3, ZIP

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Mitch J, Michael Walsh, David Joseph, and new cohost Daniel Miessler discuss what the practical differences are between the goals of incompatibilists and compatibilists in reforming society....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Essentia High GZ, Essentia Low GZ, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3, ZIP

In the last episode, George Ortega had ideas of a new project involving creating a series of questions related to obesity that will allow people to arrive at the conclusion that it's not their fault when they can't lose weight....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Essentia High GZ, Essentia Low GZ, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs and George Ortega revisit the topic of obesity and fat shaming. People are often blamed for  being fat as if they somehow freely willed it on themselves. We want people to see why their fatness is not their fault....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Essentia High GZ, Essentia Low GZ, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs, Mitch J, Jamie Soden, and Jessica Gillette talk about what it means for something to exist. Some ideas such as free will are so incoherent that they don't make any sense and can't be proven or disproven by any method....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3, ZIP

Trick Slattery, Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Mitch J., David Joseph,and Jamie Soden share their personal biases and discuss the problems of wishful thinking when trying to accurately describe reality....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3, ZIP

Some people say that believing that they have a free will makes them happy. Why would someone want to take away their happiness by showing them the truth? In this episode, Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and Michael Laster explain not only why free will is impossible but that it actually makes us ver....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Essentia High GZ, Essentia Low GZ, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3, ZIP

Chandler shares a lot of free will related posts and comments on Facebook. One of his friends is a commenting dude bro who frames his moral code after Immanuel Kant, Jainism and The Batman. Chandler asked to read some comments from this dude bro so that the cohosts can clear up some misunderstanding....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Essentia High GZ, Essentia Low GZ, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and Jamie Soden started talking about veganism and religion. Later on we talked about happiness being the most important thing and how our level of happiness affects our morality....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Essentia High GZ, Essentia Low GZ, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3, ZIP

In recent podcasts (114-116), George Ortega has attempted to reconcile determinism – and a rejection of free will -- with a pantheistic notion of god. Nick Vale supports George in this endeavor, but Chandler Klebs, Trick Slattery Michael Walsh and Mitch J....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs and George Ortega continue their talks about God and the Universe. In recent episodes, George has presented his case that God is the Universe. Chandler has a different idea than George based on the idea that life creates life through various means of reproduction....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

In part 2 of this series, George Ortega, Chandler Klebs and Jamie Soden explore a proof of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic God based on the following commonly held attributes, which are listed on the Wiki page....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

Following from our lack of free will, George Ortega presents a logical-scientific proof for the existence of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic God that is based on similarities between God's commonly-held principle attributes and the fundamental properties of the physical universe....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

Mitch J, Trick Slattery, George Ortega, and Chandler Klebs talk about some different types of compatibilism and the reasons why compatibilists feel the need to keep people believing in free will. This was an extremely long episode, but these are extremely important for us to explain because compatib....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs and George Ortega talk about how most of the time we are not able to do the things we want to do. Most of our time is spent doing what we need to survive. Rarely do we act on our desires....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Essentia High GZ, Essentia Low GZ, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

Mitch J, Chandler Klebs, Michael Walsh, Trick Slattery, and Jamie Soden talk about a variety of topics. The cohosts have a lot of trouble when it comes to defining certain terms such as rationality, natural, supernatural, religion, or intuition....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Essentia High GZ, Essentia Low GZ, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, Mitch J, and Jamie Soden talk about morality. Truth be told, George, Mitch, and Trick did most of the talking. Since we understand that we don't have a free will, we don't credit or blame people for doing what we consider good or bad....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Essentia High GZ, Essentia Low GZ, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and wsdtime talk about the omni attributes which are usually assigned to God in monotheistic religions. George reinterprets these terms to make the case that God is the same thing as the Universe....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Essentia High GZ, Essentia Low GZ, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and wsdtime(AKA Will) talk about the difference between the ability to do what we want and the ability to choose what we want. Will may feel that his decision to eat a certain food or play a specific game are up to him, but he did not choose his preferences to begin wi....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Essentia High GZ, Essentia Low GZ, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

In the last episode, Michael Walsh raised the question of whether we should explain the illusion of free will to religious people or whether they must first give up their religion before they are able to accept that they don't have a free will....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Essentia High GZ, Essentia Low GZ, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3