Free Will, Science, and Religion

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and wsdtime try to list some different reasons people may not blame people for things even though they don't understand that free will doesn't exist..This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, wsdtime, and Juris discuss how we can have more productive discussions if we can manage to reduce our negative emotional reactions to things people do. Chandler and George do this by reminding themselves that however harmful/unethical/undesirable/immoral the actions of....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs, Poffo Ortiz, wsdtime, and Jessica Gillette talk about how we are all products of our environment and therefore can't help but have the beliefs and thinking that we do about every topic including morality, religion and politics....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, Mitch J, and wsd all started talking about the concept of how to stop people from doing harm without blaming them. A lot of it focused on Donald Trump and different theories of why people voted for him....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, and Poffo Ortiz talk about how we experience our decisions. We start from the premise that we know we don't have a free will but dig deeper into exactly how our decisions are made subconsciously and how we experience them consciously....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, Quayd, Poffo Ortiz, and Peter Moriarty try to clear up some of the confusion some people experience upon being told that they don't have free will. It doesn't mean that people can't change....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs, Jamie Soden, George Ortega, wsd, and Trick Slattery talk about some things wrong with the libertarian political philosophy but also how free will belief plays into it. Also, Jamie Soden wrote a short book about the nonsense of Free Will belief and Christianity....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, wsd, Logan Meyer, and Jessica Gillette struggle to define words such as choice, randomness, and intelligence. There are different meanings that different groups have in mind when they use the same word....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, wsd, Jamie Soden, Logan Meyer, and Trick Slattery talk about different economic theories and their possible connection with people's belief in free will. Also there was a big talk about people's incentive to work and the benefits of a Universal Basic Income..This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Poffo, wsd, Jamie Soden, Logan Meyer, Trick Slattery, Michael Walsh and Quayd intended to talk about the connection free will belief has to our beliefs. Understanding that we don't have a free will and are not to blame allows us to improve ethically as well as think mo....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and Quayd started this episode as a way to restart refutations of free will like the cohosts have done in earlier episodes. However, it became clear that part of the problem is that the public may not understand what free will has traditionally mean since the term was ....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, Quayd, and Monique Lukens talk about the idea of a free choice related to recent events in politics. While this show mostly focuses on the fact that we don't have a free will and are not responsible for any choice, it's also important to see how these c....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Quayd, wsdtime, Jamie Soden, and David Joseph discuss both the views of libertarians(those who say we have free will and determinism is false) and compatibilists(who say that we have some sort of free will that is compatible with determinism)....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Mitch J, David Joseph, Michael Walsh, wsdtime and Quayd join in a conversation about why people believe in choice even though the term is vacuous when fully analyzed. For many people, free will is completely tied to the belief that we control our thoughts before we thi....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Jamie Soden, and Trick Slattery talk about the laws of nature controlling everything that happens. For humans to claim that they have a free will is to imply that their decisions are completely immune to all the laws of physics, chemistry, and all other things that are....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs and Quayd talk about Nationalism/Patriotism and how it tends to divide humanity into separate groups which compete with each other rather than work together for all citizens of earth. This is another part of making the connection that nobody chooses their country of birth and can take....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Jamie Soden, and Logan Meyer talk about some of the most confusing topics of self, consciousness, intelligence, and what things we can or cannot know. How can we know whether we are living in a matrix or the dream of a giant whale? Some things are beyond our ability to....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Jamie Soden, and Logan Meyer talk about how belief in free will is most likely one of the reasons that people claim that climate change is not happening. They may feel guilty if they feel like they are being accused of destroying the planet....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Quayd, and David Joseph review some recent topics including the idea behind a resource based economy, George's pantheism/accutheism, and other mysteries of the Universe. The episode is rather long, so for those who are limited in time, here is a brief description of wh....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Mitch J, Trick Slattery, David Joseph, wsdtime, and Jamie Soden talk once again about George's presentation that God is equal to the Universe. This turns to another heated confusion over what words such as consciousness, control, and intelligence mean....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, wsdtime, David Joseph and Jamie Soden talk about The Venus Project, which centered around the idea of distributing resources to those who need it without a monetary system....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, wsdtime, Michael Laster and Jamie Soden  talk about the common claim that there can't be any morality if humans don't have a free will. Morality can still exist without moral responsibility, but it may not always be clear depending on what you were tau....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, wsdtime, Michael Laster and Jamie Soden talk about strategies for getting people to see how politics can changed for the better by giving up the free will belief....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs, Quayd, David Joseph, and George Ortega talk about how people don't have the bigger conversations about how to maximize happiness because they simply blame people rather than looking at the causes of human behavior and how they can redesign society according to this powerful truth..This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and David Joseph discuss a plan to connect the belief in Free Will to politics through a popular website called Dailykos. George thinks this is a way to bring more people to see that the topic of free will is not just a hobby for philosophers but has real application f....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs, Quayd, and Wsdtime talk about how indeterminism is just as equally incompatible with free will or being the self-causer of your desires as is determinism. Sometimes things are a plain contradiction in terms and can't both be true at the same time....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, Quayd, David Joseph, and Wsdtime talk about current events in politics and social issues. Particularly wealth inequality and how the notion that people are more or less deserving of what they have is a direct consequence of belief in free will....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Quayd, and Wsdtime talk about how they have benefitted in their lives once they stopped blaming people because they came to understand no one freely chooses to be what they are or do what they do....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Mitch J, Trick Slattery, Wsdtime, Quayd, and Anthony Bishop talk again about how they will form an organization which will be a combined group to educate the whole world about why we don't have free will, why we are benefitted by knowing we lack free will, and how to c....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Mitch J, and Wsdtime talk about some of the videos available on the internet that refute free will. In recent times, more and more scientists are bringing the free will topic out of philosophy into the public knowledge....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Mitch J, Anthony Bishop, and Wsdtime talk about the reasons for starting a non profit organization dedicated to educating the public on the important truth that we don't have free will and how it helps us....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 Anthony Bishop talk about how to get the public to understand the truth and the relevance of the fact that free will is an illusion. Here are a few ideas that we've talked about....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 to first time guest Monique Lukens. She says she believes in destiny and free will. The cohosts try to clarify the difference between feeling free to do as we want and being free choosers of our wants....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, Mitch J, Michael Walsh, Jamie Soden, David Joseph, George Ortega, Quayd, and Will talk about the language people use and common things people say that often implies free will belief. Words such as "control", voluntary", "intent", "free choice", "freedom", "deserve", "responsible", "c....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs talks to George Ortega about his recent reconsideration of whether or not happiness is truly his top priority. He feels more compelled to embrace truth even if it has painful consequences....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 Jamie Soden talk about the first cause argument for the existence of God. Chandler's basic premise is that the argument from first cause is actually an argument that presupposes that determinism is true....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 some of the confusion about randomness. Some people really believe things happen without a cause just because they lack a method for predicting them. Chandler and George are determinists because they believe that there is no logical coherence to the idea n....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 the two different levels or meanings of the word choice. This has led to some confusion between compatibilists and incompatibilists in the free will debate....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, Michael Walsh, and David Joseph talk about free will, moral responsibility, and other beliefs that may be a useful fiction. A belief may be false but it might lead to happiness for an individual....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

Felicia Hogan introduces attachment theory to Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, Michael Walsh and Jamie Soden. They talk about how their own backgrounds affect their current relationships and how it fits into our understanding that nobody has a free will....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Mitch J, and Jamie Soden talk about a common problem humans have when it comes to their sense of self and the meaning or value of their lives. Many humans have a bizarre need to view themselves as being somehow special or important when compared to other animals and al....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, David Joseph, Michael Walsh, and Jamie Soden talk about how to define what a religion is. However, as usual, they got sidetracked over terms like "supernatural" and "control"....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs, Mitch J, and George Ortega talk about some ideas that are taboo because of misplaced fears people have about the implications of giving up free will belief, religion, or pain. Some fear that science will strip them of their humanity....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 use different explanations of why our choices cannot truly be caused by us. Different scientific principles(causality, acausality, the unconscious, and the pleasure principle) are in conflict with free will belief....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 difference between a practical type of responsibility which we operate under compared to being fundamentally responsible for our choices. Nobody is the first cause of their decisions but this does not prevent people from "taking responsibility" just to....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 what we eat and how much we eat is causally determined by genetics and conditioning. If we had a free will, it would make no sense for people to even have preferences in food to begin with....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, Trick Slattery, Mitch J, and Mike Walsh discuss different views on time and their implications for free will, determinism, and even fatalism. During this podcast George and Trick defended the view known as "presentism" and Mike and Mitch defended the view....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

Chandler Klebs and George Ortega talk about all kinds of bizarre topics that will blow your mind. Free will belief that keeps us from asking bigger questions of the infinite regress of causality that compels us to do 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

Chandler Klebs and George Ortega talk about why the free will belief is the main force behind the harm caused by many religions. Because of this, many atheists and anti-theists have been attacking religion....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 what changes they expect to see in the future when people finally understand that nobody has a free will. They will not blame anyone for anything in the strong sense of believing that they freely chose to do something wrong....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