I recommend this great book that explains in understandable language how free will, consciousness, and self do not exist independently of the brain.

How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy, [gender determinism], or capitalism?

First, you never admit that the order is imagined [probably not even to yourself].

You always insist that the order sustaining society is an objective reality created by the great gods or by the laws of nature.

Yuval Harari, Sapiens

*Words in brackets are my own.

The free will vs. determinism debate: Can we truly hold people morally responsible if our actions are predetermined?

P.F. Strawson's 'Freedom and Resentment' offers a powerful shift. He argues our practice of holding people morally responsible is rooted in natural 'reactive attitudes,' not abstract metaphysics. These reactions are fundamental to human social life.

https://open.substack.com/pub/terraphilosophica/p/beyond-determinism-understanding?r=5lwmoo&utm_medium=ios
#Philosophy #FreeWill #Determinism #PFStrawson #FreedomAndResentment #Ethics #MoralResponsibility #AcademicMastodon

#Zoomposium with Prof. Dr. #Brigitte #Falkenburg “#Myth #Determinism or the #limits of #brain research”

Her research covers topics of #philosophy of nature, #philosophy of science and #philosophy of #physics as well as #modern #metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of technology. She has already published a number of well-known publications on these topics, which are only mentioned here as examples:

More at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2025/02/19/mythos-determinismus/

or: https://youtu.be/P3Vf64QFg0U

#Zoomposium with Prof. Dr. #Brigitte #Falkenburg “#Myth #Determinism or the #limits of #brain research”

Her research covers topics of #philosophy of nature, #philosophy of science and #philosophy of #physics as well as #modern #metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of technology. She has already published a number of well-known publications on these topics, which are only mentioned here as examples:

More at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2025/02/19/mythos-determinismus/

or: https://youtu.be/P3Vf64QFg0U

#DoYouBelieve that Nobel-level scientists could redefine basic philosophical terms so badly that "superdeterminism" became necessary to describe... actual determinism?
Determinism has an absolute, binary character. Physics' version of determinism is in which the experimenter is outside of reality.
Chinese Wikipedia actually gets it right.
#wtf #physics #determinism #dyb

“The recognition that #technology is political constituted an important ideological breakthrough since it overcame the fatalism of #technological #determinism, long a staple of #capitalist apologetics” - #DavidNoble, Progress Without People: New Technology, Unemployment and the Message of Resistance

Hardware Built For Executing Python (Not Pythons) - Lots of microcontrollers will accept Python these days, with CircuitPython and Mic... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/06/hardware-built-for-executing-python-not-pythons/ #softwaredevelopment #determinism #programming #hardware #python #speed #pyxl

#Zoomposium with Prof. Dr. #Brigitte #Falkenburg “#Myth #Determinism or the #limits of #brain research”

Her research covers topics of #philosophy of nature, #philosophy of science and #philosophy of #physics as well as #modern #metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of technology. She has already published a number of well-known publications on these topics, which are only mentioned here as examples:

More at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2025/02/19/mythos-determinismus/

or: https://youtu.be/P3Vf64QFg0U

#Zoomposium with Prof. Dr. #Brigitte #Falkenburg “#Myth #Determinism or the #limits of #brain research”

Her research covers topics of #philosophy of nature, #philosophy of science and #philosophy of #physics as well as #modern #metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of technology. She has already published a number of well-known publications on these topics, which are only mentioned here as examples:

More at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2025/02/19/mythos-determinismus/

or: https://youtu.be/P3Vf64QFg0U

#Zoomposium with Prof. Dr. #Brigitte #Falkenburg “#Myth #Determinism or the #limits of #brain research”

Her research covers topics of #philosophy of nature, #philosophy of science and #philosophy of #physics as well as #modern #metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of technology. She has already published a number of well-known publications on these topics, which are only mentioned here as examples:

More at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2025/02/19/mythos-determinismus/

or: https://youtu.be/P3Vf64QFg0U

“Free Willy - Call of freedom for the #free #will”

In this essay, I deal firstly with “the #philosophical #problem of #freedom of will”, then with the #empirical attacks on freedom of will” and finally with the ‘latest #results of #cognitive #neuroscience’ of #self-control. The whole thing is then rounded off with “proposals for overcoming the #determinism-freedom-of-will #dualism.

More at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/08/31/ruf-der-freiheit-fuer-den-freien-willen/

Happy birthday Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827), French mathematical physicist (who incidentally, did invaluable work in geophysics). He was pretty hard-headed and probably didn’t really have any imaginary friends, but nonetheless Laplace’s Demon is my 3rd in the series of Imaginary Friends of Science. In 1814, when he envisioned an entity such
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#linocut #printmaking #histsci #MastoArt #Laplace #LaplacesDemon #physics #determinism #ImaginaryFriends #Science

“Free Willy - Call of freedom for the #free #will”

In this essay, I deal firstly with “the #philosophical #problem of #freedom of will”, then with the #empirical attacks on freedom of will” and finally with the ‘latest #results of #cognitive #neuroscience’ of #self-control. The whole thing is then rounded off with “proposals for overcoming the #determinism-freedom-of-will #dualism.

More at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/08/31/ruf-der-freiheit-fuer-den-freien-willen/

Belsham was a determinist and actually used “libertarian” as an insult against free will advocates. Ironically, that pejorative would later become a badge of honor.

 
Understanding #Quantum #Mechanics #3: #NonLocality

❛❛ #Quantum #Mechanics, it seems, then forces you to give up on #determinism & #locality. It is fundamentally unpredictable & #nonlocal. ❜❜ 5:00/7-min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL9wWeEmQvo 2020 May 29
https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_nonlocality
h/t @teledyn for thoughts on non-locality.

Is everything you do predetermined, or do you have free will? Does a deterministic world view dominate western society? What do you think? Leave your thoughts in the comments! #zen #zenmaster #philosophy #materialism #determinism https://youtube.com/shorts/YUx6gSOkGDo