Tag: Dan Falk on free will

man standing in front of various paths, needing to make a decision to move forward in life. Generative Ai.

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 22, 2024

Categorized
Free will, Neuroscience

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Alessandra Buccella, Dan Falk on free will, John Horgan (on free will), Liad Mudrik, Tomáš Dominik}

At Scientific American, free will seems very much alive

_{The concept is incompatible with their “mind is just the brain” thesis but they can’t let go of it anyway} _{Denyse O'Leary
May 22, 2024

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Free will, Neuroscience}

The debate will surely continue but it’s remarkable that it’s even HELD at Scientific American. Wasn’t materialism supposed to have disproved free will by now? Read More ›

a hand drops a ballot into a transparent plastic ballot box on election day at a polling station. the will of the voters. free elections. Generative AI

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 5, 2023

Categorized
Evolution, Free will

Tagged
Corinne Purtill, Dan Falk on free will, Determined (Penguin 2023), Free Agents (Princeton 2023), Free will vs. totalitarianism, Kevin Mitchell, Robert Sapolsky}

Can Evolution Create Free Will? A Neurologist Says Yes

_{Could the impersonal natural force of evolution shape hierarchies in the human cerebral cortex so that we have the free will that it does not itself have?} _{Denyse O'Leary
November 5, 2023

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Evolution, Free will}

It appears that materialists have not been able to simply disprove free will, so Mitchell seems to be trying to shape an evolution theory to fit it. Read More ›