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Sabine Hossenfelder’s Free Will Folly & The Deadly Sin Of Reification
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Sabine Hossenfelder’s Free Will Folly & The Deadly Sin Of Reification

Sabine Hossenfelder released a video in which she said, "Now that Science told me I can't make any choices, I make better choices." Or words to that effect. She wants…
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Physicist Discovers He Has No Free Will: Chooses To Write Book To Say He Cannot Make Choices
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Physicist Discovers He Has No Free Will: Chooses To Write Book To Say He Cannot Make Choices

Robert Sapolsky, a Stanford academic, took decades---decades, he says---to conclude he does not have free will. He chose now as the time to tell us of his decades-long, fruitless search…
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Sabine Hossenfelder Tries, Using Free Will, To Explain She Doesn’t Have Free Will
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Sabine Hossenfelder Tries, Using Free Will, To Explain She Doesn’t Have Free Will

Here's a video Philosopher's Cabin asked me to review. We met its author, Sabine Hossenfelder, before, when she was trying to explain how black holes enhanced Diversity, or the other…
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Big Muscles: Experts Know Best
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Big Muscles: Experts Know Best

For the closing days of summer, I am posting every chapter of the first edition of Everything You Believe Is Wrong. My enemies ravaged the first edition, inserting typos galore…
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Free Will in Covenantal Moral Theology — Guest Post by John Kelleher
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Free Will in Covenantal Moral Theology — Guest Post by John Kelleher

I asked John to help explain to us the idea of free will in covenantal theology. This is, of course, a most difficult subject. But then, grasping free will, if…
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It Takes Just As Much Free Will To Punish As To Do Wrong
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It Takes Just As Much Free Will To Punish As To Do Wrong

Listen to the podcast on YouTube, Bitchute, or Gab. Thing that always cracks me up about anti-free will arguments is the contradictions. Too many of those arguments take this shape:…
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The Entity Labeled Yuval Noah Hariri Speaks To His Entity Followers
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The Entity Labeled Yuval Noah Hariri Speaks To His Entity Followers

Let's pick some low-hanging wisp-pated bug-minded bug-eyed bugman fruit in the form of the "entity" labeled Yuval Noah Hariri. This is not an insult! Hariri himself tells us he is…
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Probability Puzzle Paradox: Which Boxes To Take?
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Probability Puzzle Paradox: Which Boxes To Take?

We did Newcomb's Paradox (so called) years ago, and a twist in premises after that. But I thought it would be fun to revisit, because I had some new ideas…
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    Well as NLR said, and others have echoed, whenever disaster ultimately comes, it comes to the most advanced places, namely…

  2. Briggs on Class 63: My Correlation Is Causation Because My P Is WeeAugust 28, 2025

    Willis, The same one you used in setting up the problem. After "millions of throws" (where the manner of the…

  3. Williis Eschenbach on Class 63: My Correlation Is Causation Because My P Is WeeAugust 28, 2025

    As always, William, good stuff. Say that I have a pair of dice. I suspect that they are loaded to…

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    Briggs & Schantz - With a name like that, you two should go into business making small engines. But seriously,…

  5. Wm Arthurs on Class 63: My Correlation Is Causation Because My P Is WeeAugust 28, 2025

    Throwaway comments made by people who are confused about this sort of thing, gave me a clue to one of…

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