Alberto Casas, physicist: ‘Free will is an illusion created by our brain. Everything that is going to happen is already written’
Raúl Limónenglish.elpais.com
Alberto Casas, physicist: ‘Free will is an illusion created by our brain. Everything that is going to happen is already written’
Two Astrophysicists Debate Free Will
youtube.comIs time an illusion? I sat down with physicist Julian Barbour to explore his radical theory: time is just how we interpret changing shapes. He explains why the universe might actually be increasing in order, challenging the second law of thermodynamics. Link in comments below.
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Curt Jaimungalx.com
The danger of reductionist scientific narratives causing existential distress and the responsibility scientists have in their storytelling.
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I receive pretty much daily emails from people who say things like, I've read your paper. I now understand that I'm a collective of cells and furthermore a self-constructing or whatever. And I don't know what to do with myself. I don't know what to do anymore. I'm depressed.
I think we have to come to grips with the fact that some people
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