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Hands of a man tearing a piece of paper with inscription free will

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Michael Egnor
Date
October 17, 2020

Categorized
Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind

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Benjamin Libet, epilepsy, Featured, free will, Free won't, Jerry Coyne, Mystery of the Mind (book), Rational appetite, reason, Sabine Hossenfelder, Sensitive appetite, Thomas Aquinas, Wilder Penfield}

Neuroscience Can Help Us Understand Why Free Will Is Real

_{Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder and biologist Jerry Coyne, who deny free will, don’t seem to understand the neuroscience} _{Michael Egnor
October 17, 2020

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Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind}

Evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne seems obsessed with denying free will. In a recent post on his blog, Why Evolution Is True, he supported the claim of theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder that we do not have free will: If you’ve read this site, you’ll know that my own views are pretty much the same as hers, at least about free will. We don’t have it, and the fundamental indeterminacy of quantum mechanics doesn’t give it to us either. Hossenfelder doesn’t pull any punches: “This means in a nutshell that the whole story of the universe in every single detail was determined already at the big bang. We are just watching it play out.”… QED! Jerry Coyne, “Sabine Hossenfelder says we don’t Read More ›

Glorious Sky - Elements of this Image Furnished by NASA

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News
Date
August 20, 2020

Categorized
Philosophy of Mind, Science

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___longform, Bernardo Kastrup, Consciousness, cosmopsychism, Featured, Michael Egnor, Panpsychism, Sabine Hossenfelder}

Bernardo Kastrup Argues for a Universal Mind as a Reasonable Idea

_{The challenge, he says, is not why there is consciousness but why there are so many separate instances of consciousnesses} _{News
August 20, 2020

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Philosophy of Mind, Science}

In a recent podcast, Michael Egnor continued his discussion with philosopher and computer programmer Bernardo Kastrup; This week, the topic was panpsychism and cosmopsychism. (Last week, the topic was why consciousness couldn’t just evolve from the mud.) https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/Mind-Matters-096-Bernardo-Kastrup.mp3 A partial transcript follows: (The complete transcript is here. The Show Notes and Resources are below.) Dr. Kastrup made clear that he is not a panpsychism but rather a cosmopsychist. He explains the difference, defining panpsychism as follows: Bernardo Kastrup (pictured): Panpsychism, well, to be more accurately called constitutive panpsychism, it’s the notion that at least some of the elementary particles that constitutes the universe, at least some of them, are fundamentally conscious. In other words, they have experiential states, fundamental experiential Read More ›

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News
Date
July 16, 2020

Categorized
Natural Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, Science

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___longform, Bernardo Kastrup, Christof Koch, Consciousness, David Papineau, Electrons, Featured, Giulio Tononi, Johannes Kleiner, Michael Egnor, Sabine Hossenfelder, Tam Hunt}

At Nautilus: Electrons DO have a “rudimentary mind”

_{Panpsychists in science believe that nature is all there is but, they say, it includes consciousness as a fundamental fact of nature} _{News
July 16, 2020

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Natural Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, Science}

Consciousness has traditionally been thought to correlate in some way with life but panpsychists in science are now challenging that view.

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News
Date
February 28, 2020

Categorized
Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Bernardo Kastrup, Consciousness, Electrons, Michael Egnor, Panpsychism, Philip Goff, Physics, Sabine Hossenfelder}

Theoretical Physicist Slams Panpsychism

_{Electrons cannot be conscious, in Sabine Hossenfelder’s view, because they cannot change their behavior} _{News
February 28, 2020

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Philosophy of Mind}

Hossenfelder’s impatience is understandable but she underestimates the seriousness of the problem serious thinkers about consciousness confront.

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News
Date
November 27, 2019

Categorized
Work

Tagged
Sabine Hossenfelder}

Will AI End Astrophysics As We Know It?

_{Astrophysicists will certainly be spending much less time staring at very slowly changing skies} _{News
November 27, 2019

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Work}

Far from reducing jobs in astrophysics, AI is likely to create many more of them. As far more information becomes available, talented people will be needed to interpret, teach it, and write about it for the public.

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Michael Egnor
Date
May 6, 2019

Categorized
Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Featured, free will, Sabine Hossenfelder}

Can Physics Prove There Is No Free Will?

_{No, but it can make physicists incoherent when they write about free will} _{Michael Egnor
May 6, 2019

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Philosophy of Mind}

It’s hilarious. Sabine Hossenfelder misses the irony that she insists that people “change their minds” by accepting her assertion that they… can’t change their minds.