Free Will, Science, And Religion

Chandler begins the episode by trying to have a funny sounding accent. Then the cohosts talk once again about punishment and the purpose it might serve. Punishment sometimes serves as a deterrent. However, there is a difference between punishing for deterrence and punishing someone in revenge with 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, David Joseph, Michael Walsh, and Felicia Hogan share stories of how they lost belief in Free Will. Michael is new to the podcast and so he starts out telling his story. Next Felicia(YouTuber Firewalker 92615 )tells us her story again....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 how the laws in our countries cause us to believe what we do about certain things. Also, we talk about the wrongness of bullying people for having different views than they do....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, and David Joseph talk about the differences in morality depending on whether or not people believe in free will. Some people claim that if people stop believing in free will, they will start acting more unethically....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, and David Joseph talk about the claim that we don't have complete free will, but we have a little bit of free will. Some believe that some decisions are more free than others....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, Michael Laster, and Nick Vale go through the basics of what people usually mean by free will, why it can't exist, and the implications of understanding this and applying it to our lives....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, and Jamie Soden talk about the harms of believing in free will. We also talk about religions that tend to promote free will belief and cause great harm. The important thing to understand is that we can't blame people for the harm they cause no matter how upset we might....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

Often when talking with people, we have errors in communicating. Some of this is is because of the limitations of human languages. Other times, it is due to a difference in experience and words being used differently in their culture....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 David Joseph talk about punishment and how our ideas about it will change as the world starts to understand that we don't have a free will and nothing is up to us. Rewards and punishments are sometimes useful in modifying behavior but they should never be done beca....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, Trick Slattery, George Ortega, and David Joseph talk about what the message of this podcast is and what it is not. People do not need to fear anything from knowing we 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

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, and David Joseph talk about how certain words have different meanings to different people. This causes confusion about terms like free will, choice, randomness, god, etc....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 and George Ortega share their very controversial opinions about consciousness, intelligence, the illusion of self, and many other things. This was sort of unusual because most of our podcasts were about why free will is an illusion....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

The cohosts disagree about the role of consciousness in our actions and also at what point humans become conscious. George says our decisions are made by the unconscious brain before we become aware of 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

When we know that we aren't the source of anything we do, we can no longer be proud or arrogant. We cannot brag about what "we" did any more than another robot can. However we can still be happy being what we are and doing what we do....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, Gary Mosher, David Joseph, Trick Slattery, and Chandler Klebs talk about the meaning of "free". We clarify what the free will debate is really about. It's not about political freedom. You must first have a constraint before the word free can have any context....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 our plans for this podcast and how we will recruit cohosts and publish the recordings. We send group emails and set up Skype sessions with a variety of cohosts and talk about what is most interesting to 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

Chandler Klebs and George Ortega talk about the logical conflict between an omniscient god who knows the future with the belief that we can freely choose to do differently than what god knows we can do....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 why academics don't understand why free will is an illusion. Even when they do understand it, what keeps them from promoting this message? George thinks that they are unable to overcome their emotional needs to believe that things are different than what t....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, George, Jamie, Felicia, David, and Will talk about responsibility, the criminal justice system and how the truth of our unfree will fits into all of this. We also talk about the common fears and myths surrounding the topic that keeps people from accepting the most basic truth of human 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

Trick Slattery, George Ortega, and Jamie Soden talk about the hedonic imperative or pleasure principle. We seek pleasure and avoid pain. This is just one of many reasons we don't have a free will. People keep doing what feels good(pleasure) and try to avoid what feels bad(pain)....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