When we speak about the future of the universe, we mean when our sun burns out, when galaxies collide, when everything flies apart and ultimately evaporates. Do the untold...
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Free will seems so obvious. Whatever I want to do, I just do. But could ‘I’ be fooled? Some say that free will is an illusion, and they back up their claim with...
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We feel as if our consciousness is unified—we integrate sight, sound, all the senses. Our minds feel as an indivisible whole. But eye or brain injury can alter or eliminate...
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Personal agency is a state, the capacity of individuals to affect things. Free will is a mental faculty of various strengths. What’s the relationship between free will...
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We human beings sit roughly midway between the sizes of atoms and galaxies, and both must be so perfectly structured for us to exist. It’s called...
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What is it about consciousness that lead some to infer the existence of God? Both are mysteries but what follows from that? The argument makes three big assumptions: (i)...
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Will God transform the cosmos? God has promised to give God’s own salvation or eternal life to human beings. In the context of the resurrection of the dead, could God...
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Humans are obviously far more capable than other animals. There’s no comparison in personal capacities and social achievement. But what physically distinguishes humans?...
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What does it mean to have an ‘afterlife’? Are there different kinds of afterlives? What would it feel like to be in an afterlife? If one samples the various...
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Who’s the boss, me or my brain? Brain data does not favor free will. In the famous Libet experiment, my brain makes decisions prior to my conscious sense of making that...
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Free will is a classic and perennial problem in philosophy. It is a probe of profound issues of how the world works as well as how the mind works. What are the primary issues...
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Our human sense is that our will is fully free. Our scientific sense is that every action is determined by a prior action. Free will versus determinism is a big question...
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