Human knowledge has progressed exponentially since the dawn of modern science. It is no longer reasonable to accept claims without sufficient objective evidence. The harm from religion, alternatives to medicine, conservatism, and all other false beliefs will be exposed on this blog by reporting the findings of science. This blog will also reinforce what should be the basics of education: History, Civics, Financial Literacy, Media Literacy, and Critical/Science Based Thinking.
Monday, June 17, 2024
You Don't Have Free Will, But You Still Are Responsible
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Free Will: Is The Debate Over?
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Free Will: A Definitive Debate
Monday, September 18, 2023
Another Christian Apologist Attempting To Explain Free Will
Click on the link below for a short video of a Christian apologist attempting to support the discredited concept of Free Will:
Goofy Arguments About Free Will
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This video clarified the subject 2 years ago: ("We don't have it, but should live like we do.") https://www.youtube.com/watch? |
Monday, January 23, 2023
Heros, Empathy, Apathy, And The Brain
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
Free Will Rebutted
Click on the link below for a 13-min video clearly and concisely debunking all of the main claims for contra-causal free will:
Sunday, July 10, 2022
Steven Pinker In-Depth
Sunday, August 1, 2021
The Neuroscience Of Political Views
As a science-based thinker, I have to accept that there probably is no contra-causal free will. The following short video explores the current understanding of the relationship between the brain, and its function, and political views:
Liberal vs. Conservative: A Neuroscientific AnalysisMonday, March 22, 2021
Free Will: A Different Look At It
Sunday, December 20, 2020
A Look At Justice
Retributive Justice, a system of criminal justice based on the punishment of offenders rather than on rehabilitation, has been the standard of justice for the vast majority of human history. While it has been a bedrock of most religions and governments, ancient and modern governments have attempted to institute some basic forms of restorative justice with minimal success (link).
Restorative Justice aims to get offenders to take responsibility for their actions, to understand the harm they have caused, to give them an opportunity to redeem themselves, and to discourage them from causing further harm. The better and more recent research is supportive of this concept. However, while it seems necessary, it is not sufficient. Efforts to correct societal inequality are needed to decrease harm (link).
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
More On Consciousness, The Soul, And Free Will
"Is consciousness a scientific problem to be solved? Or a philosophical problem that will remain a mystery? What do scientists who study the brain think? And why do they think the way they do? These leading brain scientists share their intimate ideas about how the brain generates consciousness."
Click on the link below:
How The Brain Scientists Think About Consciousness
Thursday, May 28, 2020
Moral Responsibility And Free Will
If there ever was a topic that is more important, but more difficult on which to agree in a free society, I haven't seen it. Justice, retribution, safety, and freedom are all intertwined in the question.
Click on this link for an in-depth analysis of the topic.
Sunday, January 19, 2020
Brain Imaging Is Imperative For Behavior Diagnosis
Friday, January 17, 2020
No Soul, No Afterlife
- Our reality involves atoms (chemistry) ONLY.
- Life emerged from chemistry.
- At death, our atoms disperse from our bodies and stay within our natural reality.
- Thus, there is no support for a supernatural "Soul" or for our brains being conduits for a universal "Consciousness."
- Free Will: Humans can't overrule the laws of physics but are rational agents with the ability to make choices.
Saturday, November 2, 2019
Free Will From A Logical View
Why Free Will Doesn't Exist
Monday, October 28, 2019
Taking The Woo Out of Quantum Mechanics
- "The fundamental underpinnings of nature are probabilistic, or nondeterministic. - - - we have to be careful not to extrapolate what happens at the quantum level, to the deterministic world of our everyday experience. Just because free will implies that your decisions are not deterministic, and quantum mechanics also implies that the properties of small particles are not deterministic, the two are not related. There is no science linking free will with quantum uncertainty."
Friday, September 13, 2019
Has A Famous Argument Against Free Will Been Debunked?
Sunday, April 8, 2018
Free Will, Original Sin, And Education
Monday, August 29, 2016
Free Will Is An Illusion: A Summary
Illusion of Choice: The Myth of Free Will
Sam Harris: The Illusion of Free Will
Monday, August 22, 2016
Jerry Coyne Critiques Sean Carroll's Free Will Opinion
Sean Carroll on free will