Free Will, Science, and Religion
A discussion of free will belief relevant to science, religion, biology, psychology, and philosophy. Guests and cohosts are welcome to join us. If you like talking about the difficult topics such as no the injustice of god sending people to heaven or hell in the absence of free choice, or other great talks about morality and social issues. This is the podcast you want to listen to and speak with us on!
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Episodes
- 181
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2021
23. When is Punishment Useful?
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. Ho…
Sun 19 Apr 2015
22. How we came to see Free Will as an Illusion
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.…
Sun 19 Apr 2015
21. Don't Become the Monster You Hate
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 …
Sun 19 Apr 2015
20. Changes in Morality
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 b…
Sun 12 Apr 2015
19. Why Partial or Limited Free Will is Wrong
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…
Sun 12 Apr 2015
18. Free Will: What it Means, Why we Don't Have it, and Why it Matters
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 liv…
Sun 12 Apr 2015
17. How Free Will Belief Hurts Us
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 t…
Thu 09 Apr 2015
16. Misunderstandings and What We Do About it
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…
Wed 08 Apr 2015
15. Punishment, Deterrence, and Correction
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. …
Tue 07 Apr 2015
14. What is our message?
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 fre…
Mon 06 Apr 2015
13. Different Definitions of Terms.
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, ran…
Sun 05 Apr 2015
12. Other Topics
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 podcast…
Wed 01 Apr 2015
11. When Do We Become Conscious?
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 …
Tue 31 Mar 2015
10. Happy Conscious Robots
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 bein…
Mon 30 Mar 2015
9. Right Way to Think
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. …
Mon 30 Mar 2015
7. Podcast Publishing Goals
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 coh…
Wed 25 Mar 2015
6. God's Omniscience Versus Free Will
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 …
Wed 25 Mar 2015
5. These People Just Don't Get It!
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 th…
Tue 24 Mar 2015
4. Age of Responsibility?
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 fear…
Mon 23 Mar 2015
2. Hedonic Imperative
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. Pe…
Mon 23 Mar 2015
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