Free Will, Science, And Religion

Chandler Klebs and George Ortega talk about why your life can have just as much meaning or possibly even more under the no free will understanding. The meaning of life is not something we choose but we can certainly find meaning in our lives even though we understand we are not in control of it....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 talk about the belief in god relevant to free will and how theology might change for theists. Chandler is atheist and George is pantheist, but we have a serious talk about how it might affect people globally....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, Jamie Soden, David Joseph, and Brad Stansell talk about what things will change in our thinking as people understand that free will is an illusion. One of them is that nobody owns anything at all because they didn't create anything....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, Jamie Soden, Anthony Bishop, David Joseph, and Brad Stansell talk about why governments and other rich people blame the poor for their poverty. This injustice is already a problem, but it is also proven irrational when people are proven not to be respon....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, Jamie Soden, Anthony Bishop, David Joseph, and Brad Stansell refute free will and explain why this knowledge is the biggest thing ever! John Searle, the 13th ranked post-1900 philosopher, says that our world overcoming the free will illusion "would be a....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 talk about some of their past regrets and how this helped them understand why they wish they could have done otherwise but that they could not have done any different unless their knowledge had been greater than it was at that time..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, Derek Smeltzer, and George Ortega talk about why free will is impossible because it is ruled out by causality but also explain why acausality would be equally incompatible with us choosing what happens....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, Derek Smeltzer, and George Ortega talk about the belief in free will and the contradiction between believing we have a free will while believing in an omnipotent or omniscient god. If god created us, then god caused us to do whatever we did....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

David Joseph, Jamie Soden , George Ortega, and Trick Slattery talk about parallel universes or many worlds. Whatever these things are, they do not prove free will. Are you in the universe where you choose pepsi or the universe where you choose coke? In any case, you didn't choose which universe you ....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Essentia High GZ, Essentia Low GZ, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

David Joseph, Jamie Soden , George Ortega, and Trick Slattery continue their previous talk about anger and frustration. Our frustration in communicating with other people is very similar to frustration we experience in losing in a video game....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

David Joseph, Jamie Soden , George Ortega, and Trick Slattery talk about how we deal with our emotions when people do things that cause pain. Even with the no free will understanding we may still feel upset when people do things that we believe are wrong or immoral....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

Co-hosts Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Jamie Soden, and Will talk about the different ideas people have about an afterlife and how many of them are directly connected to the free will belief. Religions often teach that you get what you deserve in the afterlife based on your free choices....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 this episode, Chandler Klebs, Jamie Soden, Will, and George Ortega talk about the difference between determinism and fatalism. The main difference between the two is causality. Determinism means that our choices are caused by prior events....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

George Ortega, Trick Slattery, and Jamie Soden talk about the criminal justice system and how the free will belief leads us to blame people for crimes and cause them to suffer in unnecessary ways. We need to move away from revenge and switch to methods that deter and correct criminals away from doin....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

What has the universe compelled you do feel today? Nick Vale, George Ortega, and Jamie Soden talk about the importance of knowing we don't have free will. This is a big change in our consciousness that we will benefit from but perhaps not everyone is ready for it....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, Jamie Soden, and David Joseph talk about animals in the context of the free will debate. Many people claim that free will is something that humans have but that it does not apply to animals other than humans....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 Jamie Soden talk about people's how desires for sex and procreation drive much of their behavior. Chandler believes that if people genuinely could make a so called “free choice”, that they would automatically turn off their sexual desires to avoid the trouble that comes with p....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

George Ortega, Chandler Klebs, Allen Worrell, David Joseph, and Trick Slattery talk about how it helps us both personally as well as a society after we give up the free will belief. One of the biggest changes is that it helps us understand the causes of human behavior and what causes might help them....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

David Joseph, George Ortega, Felicia Hogan, Trick Slattery, Chandler Klebs, and Allen Worrell talk about the infinite regress. Chandler begins by explaining why he thinks an infinite regress follows for a determinist who believes everything is causal....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, Jamie Soden, David Joseph, Felicia Hogan, Allen Worrell, and Trick Slattery talk about the belief in free will and its implications for the belief in heaven. Felicia introduces several problems related to heaven, the problem of evil, and 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