Sinopsis
Welcome to Exploring the Illusion of Free Will. The podcast of the worlds first successful initiative to popularize the refutation of free will, in order to help create a blame-free, guilt-free, arrogance-free and envy-free world.
Episodios
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75. History's Top Scientist, Jonathan M.S. Pearce, Refutes Free Will, 2 of 4
25/02/2013This episode of Exploring the Illusion of Free Will presents part 2 of a talk that Jonathan M.S. Pearce delivered to the South Hampshire Humanist Society refuting free will. As the beginning of each episode asserts through a quote by American philosopher John Searle, demonstrating to the world that ....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3
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74. History's Top Scientist, Jonathan M.S. Pearce, Refutes Free Will, 1 of 4
25/02/2013This episode of Exploring the Illusion of Free Will presents part 1 of a talk that Jonathan M.S. Pearce delivered to the South Hampshire Humanist Society refuting free will. As the beginning of each episode asserts through a quote by American philosopher John Searle, demonstrating to the world that ....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3
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73. Discussion 8. Defining Free Will, and Putting it to the Test with Dr. Kurt Johnson
25/02/2013In this episode of Exploring the Illusion of Free Will, hosts George, Nomi, and John talk with guest Dr. Kurt Johnson define what we mean when we use the term free will, and explore the concept as a way of showing it to be incoherent and impossible....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3
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72. Our Moral Choices Teach Us Theyâre Not From Free Will
25/02/2013In this episode of Exploring the Illusion of Free Will, recorded on April 26, 2012, producer and host George Ortega explains how an investigation into why we make the moral choices we do demonstrates that such decisions are actually made by factors outside of our control....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3
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71. Discussion 7. Models of the Self, and Human Will with Dr. Kurt Johnson
25/02/2013In this episode of Exploring the Illusion of Free Will, hosts George, Nomi, and John talk with guest Dr. Kurt Johnson about how various conceptions of the human self relate to human will. Over several centuries the debate over whether or not we humans have a free will languished in academia....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3
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70. Discussion 6. Causal Reality Discussion 2 with Dr. Kurt Johnson
25/02/2013In this episode of Exploring the Illusion of Free Will, hosts George, Nomi and John talk with guest Dr. Kurt Johnson the causal, unconscious nature of human will. Over several centuries the debate over whether or not we humans have a free will languished in academia....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3
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69. Discussion 5. Dr. Kurt Johnson on the Nature of Human Will
25/02/2013In this episode of Exploring the Illusion of Free Will, hosts George, Nomi and John talk extemporaneously with guest Dr. Kurt Johnson about the scientific and logical evidence that demonstrate free will to be an illusion....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3
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68. Discussion 4. Causal Reality Discussion 1
25/02/2013In this episode of Exploring the Illusion of Free Will, hosts George and Nomi talk extemporaneously with guest John Davis about how not just our human will, but all of reality, is subject to the fundamental process of cause and effect....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3
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67. Discussion 3. Interdisciplinary Descriptions of Causal Will
25/02/2013In this episode of Exploring the Illusion of Free Will, taped December 21, 2012, hosts George and Nomi discuss with guest John Davis the various sociological ways to understands why free will is an illusion..This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3
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66. Discussion 2. How Causality Makes Free Will Impossible
25/02/2013In this episode of Exploring the Illusion of Free Will, taped December 21, 2012, hosts George and Nomi discuss with guest John Davis what the process of causality means, and why cause and effect make free will impossible....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3
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65. Deprogramming Ourselves From Free Will Belief
25/02/2013In this episode of Exploring the Illusion of Free Will, recorded April 26, 2012, producer and host George Ortega describes the process of moving from a free will to a causal will perspective in our everyday life....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3
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64. Discussion 1. What is the Question, and Why Does it Matter?
25/02/2013In this episode of Exploring the Illusion of Free Will, recorded on December 21, 2010, producers Nomi and George, and guest John, talk about what we mean when we say we have a free will, why we don't, and how our personal and societal perspective on human will profoundly impacts our life....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3
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63. Beverly Goldberg on Human Will and Criminal Justice
25/02/2013n this episode of Exploring the Illusion of Free Will, recorded on April 26, 2012, producer and host George Ortega presents an 11 minute YouTube video clip by and of Beverly Goldberg discussing the ramifications of the belief in free will on our criminal justice system....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3
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62. Our Surreal No Free Will Reality
25/02/2013In this episode of Exploring the Illusion of Free Will, recorded on April 12, 2012, producer and host George Ortega explores how much more amazing and wonderful reality is, human actions being a manifestation of God's, or the universe's, will....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3
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61. Why Quantum Mechanics Cannot Rescue Free Will
25/02/2013In this episode of Exploring the Illusion of Free Will, recorded on April 12, 2012, host George Ortega explains why interpretations of quantum mechanics that conclude quantum mechanics to be acausal do not present opportunity for human will to be free....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3
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60. Ten Ways to Refute Free Will
25/02/2013In this episode of Exploring the Illusion of Free Will, recorded on January 27, 2012, producer and host George Ortega explains why causality, the unconscious, the hedonic and moral imperatives, the fact that we did not create ourselves, the fact that thoughts just pop into our minds, the fact that w....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3
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59. Causal Reality Off the Cuff # 6
24/02/2013In this episode of Exploring the Illusion of Free Will, recorded on April 2, 2012, producer and host George Ortega talks extemporaneously about why human beings do not have a free will, and why understanding this matters to us personally and globally..This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3
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58. Occupy and the 1%âs Dilemma About the Myth of Free Will
29/07/2012In this episode of Exploring the Illusion of Free Will, recorded on April 2, 2012, producer and host George Ortega describes why it would be in the best interest of the 1% richest and most powerful people in the world to help the world overcome the myth of free will in order to minimize hostility an....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3
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57. The Experience of Losing One's Sense of Free Will
29/07/2012In this episode of Exploring the Illusion of Free Will, recorded on April 2, 2012, producer and host George Ortega describes what it is like, and the benefits, of losing one's sense of free will..This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3
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56. The Ortega Two Step Refutation of Free Will
29/07/2012In this episode of Exploring the Illusion of Free Will, producer, writer and host George Ortega presents an original two step refutation of any and all arguments for a free will that relies on the fact that both causality and randomness make free will impossible....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3