Free Will, Science, and Religion

An Update To All Subscribers

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 19:49:54 GMT

This is a quick update to all people who have subscribed to the old podcasts I hosted. I can revive them if I need to but I want feedback of what the listeners would like to hear..

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185. Alternate Ways to Avoid Blame

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 22 May 2017 09:26:06 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and wsdtime try to list some different reasons people may not blame people for things even though they don't understand that free will doesn't exist..

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184. Science Requires Unemotional Objectivity

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 15 May 2017 12:27:00 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, wsdtime, and Juris discuss how we can have more productive discussions if we can manage to reduce our negative emotional reactions to things people do. Chandler and George do this by reminding themselves that however harmful/unethical/undesirable/immoral the actions of....

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183. Veganism & Cultural Conditioning

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 12:30:52 GMT

Chandler Klebs, Poffo Ortiz, wsdtime, and Jessica Gillette talk about how we are all products of our environment and therefore can't help but have the beliefs and thinking that we do about every topic including morality, religion and politics....

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182. How Do We Stop Trump?

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 12:46:22 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, Mitch J, and wsd all started talking about the concept of how to stop people from doing harm without blaming them. A lot of it focused on Donald Trump and different theories of why people voted for him....

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181. The Biology of Decision Making

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 16:06:52 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, and Poffo Ortiz talk about how we experience our decisions. We start from the premise that we know we don't have a free will but dig deeper into exactly how our decisions are made subconsciously and how we experience them consciously....

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180. How Can We make the World Better Without Free Will

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 13:48:27 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, Quayd, Poffo Ortiz, and Peter Moriarty try to clear up some of the confusion some people experience upon being told that they don't have free will. It doesn't mean that people can't change....

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179. Libertarianism, Politics, and Economics

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 01:04:44 GMT

Chandler Klebs, Jamie Soden, George Ortega, wsd, and Trick Slattery talk about some things wrong with the libertarian political philosophy but also how free will belief plays into it. Also, Jamie Soden wrote a short book about the nonsense of Free Will belief and Christianity....

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178. Free Will, Intelligence, Nature and God

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Tue, 27 Sep 2016 04:04:41 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, wsd, Logan Meyer, and Jessica Gillette struggle to define words such as choice, randomness, and intelligence. There are different meanings that different groups have in mind when they use the same word....

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177. Marxism, Socialism, Capitalism and Free Will Belief

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 10:59:17 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, wsd, Jamie Soden, Logan Meyer, and Trick Slattery talk about different economic theories and their possible connection with people's belief in free will. Also there was a big talk about people's incentive to work and the benefits of a Universal Basic Income..

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176. Free Will Belief Ruins Logical and Ethical Thinking

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 01:12:40 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Poffo, wsd, Jamie Soden, Logan Meyer, Trick Slattery, Michael Walsh and Quayd intended to talk about the connection free will belief has to our beliefs. Understanding that we don't have a free will and are not to blame allows us to improve ethically as well as think mo....

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175. Defining and Refuting Free Will Part 1

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 09:37:26 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and Quayd started this episode as a way to restart refutations of free will like the cohosts have done in earlier episodes. However, it became clear that part of the problem is that the public may not understand what free will has traditionally mean since the term was ....

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174. No Free Choice in Politics

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 10:27:27 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, Quayd, and Monique Lukens talk about the idea of a free choice related to recent events in politics. While this show mostly focuses on the fact that we don't have a free will and are not responsible for any choice, it's also important to see how these c....

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173. Libertarians or Compatibilists: Which is More Harmful?

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 13:07:41 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Quayd, wsdtime, Jamie Soden, and David Joseph discuss both the views of libertarians(those who say we have free will and determinism is false) and compatibilists(who say that we have some sort of free will that is compatible with determinism)....

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172. What is the Meaning of Choice?

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 02:46:52 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Mitch J, David Joseph, Michael Walsh, wsdtime and Quayd join in a conversation about why people believe in choice even though the term is vacuous when fully analyzed. For many people, free will is completely tied to the belief that we control our thoughts before we thi....

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171. The Laws of Nature Prohibit Free Will

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 04 Jul 2016 10:16:04 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Jamie Soden, and Trick Slattery talk about the laws of nature controlling everything that happens. For humans to claim that they have a free will is to imply that their decisions are completely immune to all the laws of physics, chemistry, and all other things that are....

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170. The Illusion of Separation

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 03 Jul 2016 04:46:01 GMT

Chandler Klebs and Quayd talk about Nationalism/Patriotism and how it tends to divide humanity into separate groups which compete with each other rather than work together for all citizens of earth. This is another part of making the connection that nobody chooses their country of birth and can take....

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168. The Free Will Belief Climate Change Denial Connection

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 01:24:50 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Jamie Soden, and Logan Meyer talk about how belief in free will is most likely one of the reasons that people claim that climate change is not happening. They may feel guilty if they feel like they are being accused of destroying the planet....

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169. Free Will and the Self

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 17:31:23 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Jamie Soden, and Logan Meyer talk about some of the most confusing topics of self, consciousness, intelligence, and what things we can or cannot know. How can we know whether we are living in a matrix or the dream of a giant whale? Some things are beyond our ability to....

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167. Which Things Must We All Agree About?

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 02:33:23 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Quayd, and David Joseph review some recent topics including the idea behind a resource based economy, George's pantheism/accutheism, and other mysteries of the Universe. The episode is rather long, so for those who are limited in time, here is a brief description of wh....

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166. The God/Universe Debate Reloaded

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 01:05:13 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Mitch J, Trick Slattery, David Joseph, wsdtime, and Jamie Soden talk once again about George's presentation that God is equal to the Universe. This turns to another heated confusion over what words such as consciousness, control, and intelligence mean....

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165. A Resource Based Economy

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 11:16:43 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, wsdtime, David Joseph and Jamie Soden talk about The Venus Project, which centered around the idea of distributing resources to those who need it without a monetary system....

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163. Injecting Free Will Into Politics

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 15:37:25 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, wsdtime, Michael Laster and Jamie Soden talk about strategies for getting people to see how politics can changed for the better by giving up the free will belief....

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164. Morality without Free Will

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 12:43:51 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, wsdtime, Michael Laster and Jamie Soden talk about the common claim that there can't be any morality if humans don't have a free will. Morality can still exist without moral responsibility, but it may not always be clear depending on what you were tau....

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162. Free Will Belief is a Conversation Stopper

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 10:39:10 GMT

Chandler Klebs, Quayd, David Joseph, and George Ortega talk about how people don't have the bigger conversations about how to maximize happiness because they simply blame people rather than looking at the causes of human behavior and how they can redesign society according to this powerful truth..

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161. Bringing the Free Will Issue to Politics Through Dailykos

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 21:14:29 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and David Joseph discuss a plan to connect the belief in Free Will to politics through a popular website called Dailykos. George thinks this is a way to bring more people to see that the topic of free will is not just a hobby for philosophers but has real application f....

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160. Nothing is Compatible With Free Will

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sat, 04 Jun 2016 07:02:25 GMT

Chandler Klebs, Quayd, and Wsdtime talk about how indeterminism is just as equally incompatible with free will or being the self-causer of your desires as is determinism. Sometimes things are a plain contradiction in terms and can't both be true at the same time....

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159. Free Will, Politics, Equality, and Fairness

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 12:03:37 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, Quayd, David Joseph, and Wsdtime talk about current events in politics and social issues. Particularly wealth inequality and how the notion that people are more or less deserving of what they have is a direct consequence of belief in free will....

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158. Personal Benefits of Seeing Through the Free Will Illusion

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 09:47:49 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Quayd, and Wsdtime talk about how they have benefitted in their lives once they stopped blaming people because they came to understand no one freely chooses to be what they are or do what they do....

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157. Organizing the Effort to Educate the Public on the Truth of No Free Will

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 10:41:49 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Mitch J, Trick Slattery, Wsdtime, Quayd, and Anthony Bishop talk again about how they will form an organization which will be a combined group to educate the whole world about why we don't have free will, why we are benefitted by knowing we lack free will, and how to c....

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155. Starting a No Free Will Organization

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 30 May 2016 10:35:16 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Mitch J, Anthony Bishop, and Wsdtime talk about the reasons for starting a non profit organization dedicated to educating the public on the important truth that we don't have free will and how it helps us....

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156. Video Refutations of Free Will

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Tue, 31 May 2016 05:05:27 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Mitch J, and Wsdtime talk about some of the videos available on the internet that refute free will. In recent times, more and more scientists are bringing the free will topic out of philosophy into the public knowledge....

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154. Getting the No Free Will Message Out There

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 10 Apr 2016 04:37:34 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and Anthony Bishop talk about how to get the public to understand the truth and the relevance of the fact that free will is an illusion. Here are a few ideas that we've talked about....

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153. Introducing Monique Lukens to the Podcast

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 01:14:13 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, and David Joseph talk to first time guest Monique Lukens. She says she believes in destiny and free will. The cohosts try to clarify the difference between feeling free to do as we want and being free choosers of our wants....

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152. Language of Free Will

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 20:23:48 GMT

Chandler Klebs, Mitch J, Michael Walsh, Jamie Soden, David Joseph, George Ortega, Quayd, and Will talk about the language people use and common things people say that often implies free will belief. Words such as "control", voluntary", "intent", "free choice", "freedom", "deserve", "responsible", "c....

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151. Chandler's Existential Crisis of Truth vs Happiness

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 19:57:11 GMT

Chandler Klebs talks to George Ortega about his recent reconsideration of whether or not happiness is truly his top priority. He feels more compelled to embrace truth even if it has painful consequences....

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150. The First Cause Argument

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 03:55:11 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and Jamie Soden talk about the first cause argument for the existence of God. Chandler's basic premise is that the argument from first cause is actually an argument that presupposes that determinism is true....

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149. The Insanity of Randomness

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 01:26:57 GMT

Chandler Klebs and George Ortega talk about some of the confusion about randomness. Some people really believe things happen without a cause just because they lack a method for predicting them. Chandler and George are determinists because they believe that there is no logical coherence to the idea n....

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148. Two Levels of Choice

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 28 Feb 2016 22:44:36 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and David Joseph talk about the two different levels or meanings of the word choice. This has led to some confusion between compatibilists and incompatibilists in the free will debate....

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147. A Useful Fiction?

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 22:12:52 GMT

Chandler Klebs, Trick Slattery, Michael Walsh, and David Joseph talk about free will, moral responsibility, and other beliefs that may be a useful fiction. A belief may be false but it might lead to happiness for an individual....

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146. Relationships and Attachment Theory

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 01:35:21 GMT

Felicia Hogan introduces attachment theory to Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, Michael Walsh and Jamie Soden. They talk about how their own backgrounds affect their current relationships and how it fits into our understanding that nobody has a free will....

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145. Humans Want To Feel Special

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 14 Feb 2016 05:05:35 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Mitch J, and Jamie Soden talk about a common problem humans have when it comes to their sense of self and the meaning or value of their lives. Many humans have a bizarre need to view themselves as being somehow special or important when compared to other animals and al....

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144. Defining Religion in the Dimensions of a Donut Shaped Universe

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 22:10:13 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, David Joseph, Michael Walsh, and Jamie Soden talk about how to define what a religion is. However, as usual, they got sidetracked over terms like "supernatural" and "control"....

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143. Fear of the Future

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 21:40:48 GMT

Chandler Klebs, Mitch J, and George Ortega talk about some ideas that are taboo because of misplaced fears people have about the implications of giving up free will belief, religion, or pain. Some fear that science will strip them of their humanity....

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141. Pragmatic vs Fundamental Responsibility

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 01:52:21 GMT

Chandler Klebs and George Ortega talk about the difference between a practical type of responsibility which we operate under compared to being fundamentally responsible for our choices. Nobody is the first cause of their decisions but this does not prevent people from "taking responsibility" just to....

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142. Different Explanations of Why Free Will Makes No Sense

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 03:15:10 GMT

Chandler Klebs and George Ortega use different explanations of why our choices cannot truly be caused by us. Different scientific principles(causality, acausality, the unconscious, and the pleasure principle) are in conflict with free will belief....

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140. We don't Freely Will Our Hunger

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 03:04:07 GMT

Chandler Klebs and George Ortega talk about why what we eat and how much we eat is causally determined by genetics and conditioning. If we had a free will, it would make no sense for people to even have preferences in food to begin with....

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139. It's About Time

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 00:51:34 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, David Joseph, Trick Slattery, Mitch J, and Mike Walsh discuss different views on time and their implications for free will, determinism, and even fatalism. During this podcast George and Trick defended the view known as "presentism" and Mike and Mitch defended the view....

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137. Fight Free Will Instead of Religion

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 02:47:46 GMT

Chandler Klebs and George Ortega talk about why the free will belief is the main force behind the harm caused by many religions. Because of this, many atheists and anti-theists have been attacking religion....

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138. The Universe Questioning Itself

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 03:12:48 GMT

Chandler Klebs and George Ortega talk about all kinds of bizarre topics that will blow your mind. Free will belief that keeps us from asking bigger questions of the infinite regress of causality that compels us to do what we do....

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136. The Future World Without Free Will

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 02:26:34 GMT

Chandler Klebs and George Ortega talk about what changes they expect to see in the future when people finally understand that nobody has a free will. They will not blame anyone for anything in the strong sense of believing that they freely chose to do something wrong....

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135. Video Game Decisions Are Not Freely Willed

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 01:54:08 GMT

Chandler Klebs and George Ortega talk about what causes us to play video games and the connection between the free will belief and our emotional reaction to winning or losing at games. We don't need to be the author of our own desires to enjoy playing our favorite games!.

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134. Semantics of Science, Religion, Philosophy, and Logic

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 10 Jan 2016 21:41:40 GMT

Chandler Klebs, Michael Walsh, Trick Slattery, and George Ortega talk about the similarities and differences between different topics. Which branch of Science, Religion, or Philosophy does the free will topic fall under? It's hard to come to an exact agreement on what Science, Religion, or Philosoph....

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133. Depression, Suicide, and Empathy

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 03:23:21 GMT

Chandler Klebs, Mitch J, George Ortega, and David Joseph talk about our inability to maintain positive and happy thoughts. Depression is a fine example of why people aren't able to control their moods and do things they would not if they were depressed....

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132. Different Refutations of Free Will

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 02:08:47 GMT

Chandler Klebs and George Ortega explain why we don't have free will/free choice. The Hedonic Imperative, Determinism, Indeterminism, and the messages that influence us subconsciously are great ways of understanding human behavior....

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131. Conflation of Ideas

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 27 Dec 2015 21:07:01 GMT

Mitch J, Chandler Klebs, and Jamie Soden talk about many different issues and their connection to the belief in free will. They try to clear up the confusion that results when people believe that people are choosing to be obese, choosing to be lazy, or choosing to be sexually attracted to someone....

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130. Epiphenominalistic Zombies

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 02:22:59 GMT

George Ortega, Trick Slattery, and Michael Walsh talk a bunch about epiphenomenalism, consciousness, zombies, pizza, and materialism vs dualism. Chandler Klebs and David Joseph were also on the call but for the most part were too confused to add to the conversation other than the time Chandler disag....

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129. Clearly Defining Free Will

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 22:50:09 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, David Joseph, and Michael Walsh talk about how to best define free will. It is often done in relation to “control”, “could have done otherwise”, or “moral responsibility”....

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128. Is Anything Possible?

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 02:09:39 GMT

Chandler Klebs and George Ortega have a fun talk about whether acausal events are a possibility and what implications it would have if we could know for a fact acausal events were happening. Furthermore, they talk about what it means when people say that something is possible....

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127. Causally Confused Correlation

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 01:31:54 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, David Joseph, Trick Slattery, Daniel Miessler, and Neal Gafter talk about free will, causality, and acausality. Neal doesn't have that much interest in taking a position on whether or not we have free will but would like to discuss how clear our definitions are....

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126. Losing Weight By Losing Free Will

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 10:58:26 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Mitch J, Michael Walsh, David Joseph, and new cohost Daniel Miessler discuss new projects they have in mind to help educate people on why we don't have free will and why it's important....

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125. Sophisticated Compatibilism and other Oxymorons

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 22:59:37 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Mitch J, Michael Walsh, David Joseph, and new cohost Daniel Miessler discuss what the practical differences are between the goals of incompatibilists and compatibilists in reforming society....

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124. New Project Proposal

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 01:13:39 GMT

In the last episode, George Ortega had ideas of a new project involving creating a series of questions related to obesity that will allow people to arrive at the conclusion that it's not their fault when they can't lose weight....

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123. The Free Will and Obesity Connection

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 29 Nov 2015 03:02:25 GMT

Chandler Klebs and George Ortega revisit the topic of obesity and fat shaming. People are often blamed for being fat as if they somehow freely willed it on themselves. We want people to see why their fatness is not their fault....

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122. What Does it Mean for Something to Exist?

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 22 Nov 2015 22:15:15 GMT

Chandler Klebs, Mitch J, Jamie Soden, and Jessica Gillette talk about what it means for something to exist. Some ideas such as free will are so incoherent that they don't make any sense and can't be proven or disproven by any method....

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121. Wishful Thinking

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 01:07:40 GMT

Trick Slattery, Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Mitch J., David Joseph,and Jamie Soden share their personal biases and discuss the problems of wishful thinking when trying to accurately describe reality....

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120. Free Will Belief Doesn't Make Us Happy

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 15 Nov 2015 02:50:33 GMT

Some people say that believing that they have a free will makes them happy. Why would someone want to take away their happiness by showing them the truth? In this episode, Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and Michael Laster explain not only why free will is impossible but that it actually makes us ver....

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119. Commenting Dude Bro

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 10:11:36 GMT

Chandler shares a lot of free will related posts and comments on Facebook. One of his friends is a commenting dude bro who frames his moral code after Immanuel Kant, Jainism and The Batman. Chandler asked to read some comments from this dude bro so that the cohosts can clear up some misunderstanding....

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118. Happiness is Our Priority

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 01 Nov 2015 02:30:30 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and Jamie Soden started talking about veganism and religion. Later on we talked about happiness being the most important thing and how our level of happiness affects our morality....

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117. I Have no Need of That Hypothesis

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 25 Oct 2015 23:46:31 GMT

In recent podcasts (114-116), George Ortega has attempted to reconcile determinism – and a rejection of free will -- with a pantheistic notion of god. Nick Vale supports George in this endeavor, but Chandler Klebs, Trick Slattery Michael Walsh and Mitch J....

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116. Biotheism and Intentional Evolution

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 25 Oct 2015 04:19:42 GMT

Chandler Klebs and George Ortega continue their talks about God and the Universe. In recent episodes, George has presented his case that God is the Universe. Chandler has a different idea than George based on the idea that life creates life through various means of reproduction....

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115. Part 2 of No Free Will, and a Proof for God's Existence

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 23:02:58 GMT

In part 2 of this series, George Ortega, Chandler Klebs and Jamie Soden explore a proof of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic God based on the following commonly held attributes, which are listed on the Wiki page....

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114. No Free Will, and a Proof for God's Existence

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 03:22:47 GMT

Following from our lack of free will, George Ortega presents a logical-scientific proof for the existence of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic God that is based on similarities between God's commonly-held principle attributes and the fundamental properties of the physical universe....

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113. Debunking Compatibilism

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 21:48:35 GMT

Mitch J, Trick Slattery, George Ortega, and Chandler Klebs talk about some different types of compatibilism and the reasons why compatibilists feel the need to keep people believing in free will. This was an extremely long episode, but these are extremely important for us to explain because compatib....

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112. Why can't we do what we want?

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 02:12:46 GMT

Chandler Klebs and George Ortega talk about how most of the time we are not able to do the things we want to do. Most of our time is spent doing what we need to survive. Rarely do we act on our desires....

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111. Reality and Rationality

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 00:18:45 GMT

Mitch J, Chandler Klebs, Michael Walsh, Trick Slattery, and Jamie Soden talk about a variety of topics. The cohosts have a lot of trouble when it comes to defining certain terms such as rationality, natural, supernatural, religion, or intuition....

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110. No Free Will Talk About Morality

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 00:23:11 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, Mitch J, and Jamie Soden talk about morality. Truth be told, George, Mitch, and Trick did most of the talking. Since we understand that we don't have a free will, we don't credit or blame people for doing what we consider good or bad....

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109. How atheist refutations of God and compatibilist defenses of free will are similar

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 27 Sep 2015 06:41:32 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and wsdtime talk about the omni attributes which are usually assigned to God in monotheistic religions. George reinterprets these terms to make the case that God is the same thing as the Universe....

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108. We don't choose our preferences

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 27 Sep 2015 04:02:56 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and wsdtime(AKA Will) talk about the difference between the ability to do what we want and the ability to choose what we want. Will may feel that his decision to eat a certain food or play a specific game are up to him, but he did not choose his preferences to begin wi....

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107. Free Will or Religion: Which Goes First?

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 01:03:51 GMT

In the last episode, Michael Walsh raised the question of whether we should explain the illusion of free will to religious people or whether they must first give up their religion before they are able to accept that they don't have a free will....

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106. How Does Giving Up Free Will Belief Affect Religion?

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 20 Sep 2015 03:02:18 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and Michael Walsh talk about the connection of free will belief to religion. Since free will and human responsibility are essential to some religions, it would seem that it's difficult for someone to see free will as an illusion and still hold on to their belief in a g....

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105. Implications of Not Having a Free Will

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 03:54:10 GMT

In this podcast, George Ortega, Chandler Klebs, Trick Slattery, Mitch J, David Joseph, and Jamie Soden discuss some implications of humans not having a free will, particularly with relation to concepts like order, disorder, consciousness, and intelligence....

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104. Partial Free Will

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 21:56:38 GMT

Some people believe that sometimes we have a little bit of free will that allows us to make choices independent of anything outside of our control. This begs the question of why we can't control when we are in control or not....

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103. Everyday Experiences

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 04:17:53 GMT

Everyday experiences show us that we are not able to do what we intend. We feel that it's wrong to do things but we find that we still do them. We may not have the time, talents, or money to fulfil our desires....

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102. Blaming Ourselves

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 03:04:47 GMT

Chandler, George, and Jamie talk about how we have blamed ourselves in the past for things we did wrong but now understand that nothing was truly our choice. When we believed in free will we ignored the differences between people in abilities....

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101. Acausality

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 14:36:56 GMT

Can anything happen with no cause at all? The cohosts seem to disagree on whether this is a logical possibility. This also brings up the topic of the beginning of the universe. One problem is that different people mean different things by the word "universe"....

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99. Revenge vs Reason

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 30 Aug 2015 23:33:24 GMT

The cohosts on the Free Will, Science, and Religion podcast understand that nobody is to blame for anything because they are not the true first cause of their thoughts, desires, and actions. However sometimes they still feel the emotional need to seek revenge against those who have hurt them....

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100. Biggest Revolution Ever

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 13:38:53 GMT

Seven of the cohosts talk about why it's the biggest thing ever to know why free will is an illusion and their motives behind being part of the podcast and educating people on this topic and why it matters to everyone....

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97. Asexuality, Celibacy, and Choice

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 30 Aug 2015 02:27:02 GMT

Chandler Klebs talks with Mitch J and George Ortega about the distinction between Asexuality and Celibacy. The AVEN home page says "Unlike celibacy, which is a choice, asexuality is a sexual orientation."....

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98. Intelligence Test

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 30 Aug 2015 16:23:57 GMT

Do you have to be super intelligent to understand why free will is an illusion? Could there be emotional biases that prevent people from getting what it's all about? Mitch J, George Ortega, and Chandler Klebs explore these questions....

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96. Causality, Acausality, and Defining Randomness

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 17:37:06 GMT

Our actions are either causal or acausal. George attributes things to the universe as a way of saying that they are caused. If an event was uncaused, it would not be caused by anything that exists. We then move onto a talk about the meaning of randomness and the confusion created by multiple definit....

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95. The Suicide Question

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 02:10:43 GMT

This episode is a response to emails Chandler received during the week and forwarded to the group of cohosts. Chandler, Mitch J, David Joseph, Felicia Hogan and George Ortega try to give their best answers to this question related to suicide and free will belief....

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94. Why Would People be Overweight if they had Free Will?

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 05:47:39 GMT

Chandler Klebs and George Ortega talk about the lack of ability to control eating as one powerful example of why they don't have a free will. We would like to hear overweight free will believers explain to us why their free will which they claim they have is not any help in their weight loss goals..

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93. What is Everything up to?

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 02:28:19 GMT

Since what we do is not up to us, George Ortega and Chandler Klebs explore the idea of what is really going on in the universe and why they believe everything is caused instead of random as some people believe....

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92. No One to Blame

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 01:22:17 GMT

George Ortega explains that the understanding that we don't have a free will raises a question. If we are not responsible for what we do, who is? This may be a very important question. Mitch J replies with a simple explanation that no one is responsible for anything....

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91. Falsely Accused

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 16 Aug 2015 03:02:45 GMT

When Jamie expresses his opinions on certain emotional topics, people misunderstand him and falsely accuse him of defending crime. This comes from misunderstanding of what he is actually saying. However the larger point is that he cannot blame them for their reactions to him anymore than they could ....

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89. Defining Consciousness and Intelligence

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 18:50:06 GMT

Chandler and George try to continue the conversation they were having in episode 87 about the intelligence and consciousness of the universe. We define what we think consciousness and intelligence actually are....

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90. Positive and Negative Words

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 22:02:54 GMT

Chandler is not satisfied with the term atheist because it describes a lack of belief but doesn't explain what he is really about. He and George talk about the pros and cons of using both positive and negative words to describe what we are for, what we are against, and the reasons behind them....

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88. Death Penalty, Drugs, and Animal Slaughter

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 09:22:13 GMT

Chandler Klebs, David Joseph, Michael Walsh, and Jamie Soden talk about a variety of topics. Humans are killing humans and other animals in a variety of ways. Generally the cohosts want to eliminate the causes of these behaviors and find solutions rather than giving the death penalty to criminals..

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85. Free Will and Politics

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 09 Aug 2015 02:53:49 GMT

Chandler Klebs, Michael Laster, and George Ortega talk about politicians and specifically how republicans base everything on free will belief. The free will belief allows blaming people for being poor, overweight, mentally ill, and other countless things that people have no choice in....

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87. Are Atheism and Pantheism compatible?

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 16:14:31 GMT

George Ortega is pantheist and believes the universe has some kind of consciousness and intelligence. Chandler Klebs and Michael Laster consider his arguments and come to the conclusion that it's possible for someone to believe this while still identifying as atheist because they do not believe in t....

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86. Donald Trump Fat Shaming

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 09 Aug 2015 21:23:15 GMT

George mentioned Donald Trump called Rosie O'Donnell a fat pig in the recent republican debates. Why is it acceptable to mock people for being fat in the culture and even be allowed to promote themselves as a politician? This type of blame requires the free will belief....

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83. Breaking Free of Free Will Belief

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 14:42:17 GMT

Chandler, Mitch, Jamie, and David start out by briefly explaining how they came to see free will as an illusion. Later on we moved into other topics such as the documentary Super Size Me and the topic of hat shaming being targeted at mostly women....

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82. You Did Not Freely Will Obesity

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 20:32:32 GMT

Chandler Klebs and George Ortega talk about the topics of weight gain and how people's inability to lose weight is not something they can be blamed for. For many people this is more of a personal way of understanding why free will based blame is harmful and unnecessary....

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84. Free Will of the Gaps

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 16:25:48 GMT

When people don't have a real explanation, they use a non-explanation. Free will is one of those common explanations to explain the unexplanable. Some people use God, some Unicorns, some randomness, and others free will....

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81. The No Free Will Diet

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 26 Jul 2015 21:10:31 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and David Joseph talk about why nobody is fundamentally responsible for being fat! One the the major problems with the belief in Free Will is that it allows people to blame and punish people for things such as their sexuality because it is assumed that they could at an....

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80. Losing our sense of Free Will

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 26 Jul 2015 01:30:49 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and Jamie Soden have understood for some time why free will is an illusion and know that they don't control anything. However, fully living under this new view takes time to get used to....

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79. Morality and Free Will

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 19 Jul 2015 03:55:22 GMT

There are many different ideas about morality. For some it's based on an authority figure that tells them what is right or wrong. For others, it's all about empathy and the hedonic imperative. Whatever you believe morality is, an investigation of the prior causes that led you to follow that system w....

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78. Mistakes Were Made

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 19 Jul 2015 01:55:32 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and Mitch J talk about the reasons behind why people make mistakes and do what is not even in their best interest. This is a powerful example that shows we don't have the control some of us think we do....

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76. Free Will Fruit Flies

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 01:28:49 GMT

This episode is about people believing there is some significant kind of difference between humans and other animals that allows humans to choose with a free will instead of being only "instinct" driven like so many other animals....

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77. How Free Will Belief Causes Denial

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 01:47:53 GMT

When people believe they have a free will, they feel responsible for their actions including those that cause harm to others. To avoid the pain of guilt, they go into denial by ignoring the problem or by justifying their actions....

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75. What do people need to hear?

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 12 Jul 2015 02:15:07 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and Mitch talk about the best way to communicate the message that we don't have a free will and exactly how it applies to society as a whole. If people apply this knowledge and build a world based on this truth, there will generally be less confusion, blame, and violen....

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74. Randomness makes no sense

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 12 Jul 2015 01:16:10 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and Mitch talk about the belief in randomness or acasuality. Some people think that acausal randomness allows for a free will. It doesn't because no person can be the cause of an uncaused event nor control when or where it would happen....

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73. Equal Standards for Ourselves and Others

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 02:45:24 GMT

The truth is that no one can be credited or blamed for their choices since they are the effect of causes prior to the existence of the person. However, we may not always succeed in applying this equally to our neighbors as we do ourselves....

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72. Independence Day and Free Speech vs. Free Will

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 05 Jul 2015 02:47:22 GMT

Chandler Klebs and George Ortega talk about the major difference between political freedom(such as freedom of speech or freedom of religion) and free will(free from causality and acausality). Political freedom means that you can speak an opinion or follow a religion without being punished....

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New Guest Roni Cairns part 2

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 09:28:30 GMT

We are talking with Roni again. She believes in free will and we are trying to explain causality to her. However she does not think causality is in conflict with free will. Maybe she means something different by free will than we do....

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New Guest Roni Cairns part 1

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 15:42:03 GMT

We have a new guest who loves to talk about all kinds of topics. For her there seems to be both negative and positive types of blame. We will continue talking with her about the topics of choice, responsibility, and blame....

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68. Can thoughts be a crime?

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 28 Jun 2015 17:02:31 GMT

A lot of people are made to feel guilty just for having certain thoughts. Our thoughts can reveal a lot about our past and may actually be a useful tool. If we can recognize where our thoughts are coming from, we may be able to identify where the problem is that leads to bad thoughts....

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67. Sexuality is not a choice

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 28 Jun 2015 03:14:17 GMT

Even those who believe in free will may still be able to understand that sexual orientation is not something the individual chooses. If more people understood this, then they would stop blaming others for being gay....

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69. Luck Reversal

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 11:01:12 GMT

Knowing that we don't have a free will doesn't fix everything. Bad things still happen and they don't always work out for the better. However, at least we don't need to blame ourselves or others for the outcome....

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Dishonest Definitions

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 21 Jun 2015 23:10:37 GMT

The Libertarian type of free will(could have done otherwise) is the type of free will that all the cohosts on this podcast are saying does not exist. We see compatibilism as a deception some people have started by redefining free will as something other than free choice....

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Illusion or Ignorance

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 21 Jun 2015 03:11:28 GMT

Chandler Klebs and George Ortega talk about what other terms might describe the belief in free will. It is often called an illusion or delusion, but it might also be described as ignorance of the causes of our behavior....

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Beyond the Free Will Topic

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 21 Jun 2015 03:48:46 GMT

Chandler Klebs and George Ortega talk about other subjects that puzzle us that are worth discussing. Consciousness, evolution, the universe, the infinite regress, and practically whatever anyone thinks of can be openly questioned and explored without the fear of blame and hatred between those who di....

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63. There's No Free Will Because the Bible Says So

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 00:49:48 GMT

David Joseph was very funny while introducing this episode. In this episode Felicia reads some verses from the bible that completely nullify human free will. We had a great talk about the history of the debate about free will and how free will became a part of Christianity even though it's not bibli....

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What Determinism is Not

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 14 Jun 2015 21:46:25 GMT

When we are talking about free will, we literally mean the ancient belief that we are the first cause of our actions. This is not to be confused with political freedom(freedom of speech/religion/assembly)....

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Free Will, Science, and Religion Podcast 6-13-2015 part 1

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 14 Jun 2015 04:25:43 GMT

The belief in hell is one of the primary things that prevents people from questioning the other teachings of Christianity. They are so afraid that they will burn forever that they dismiss anything that challenges what they have been taught....

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Free Will, Science, and Religion Podcast 6-13-2015 part 2

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 14 Jun 2015 04:42:02 GMT

We will often have conflicts with other people who misunderstand us and blame us for things. Knowing that we don't deserve to be abused can help us deal practically with problems that happen. Knowing how to do this takes practice no matter who we are and it's something we all need to work on..

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Free Will, Science, and Religion Podcast 6-10-2015 part 2

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 04:39:55 GMT

Felicia and Chandler talk about the idea that Religion Poisons Everything. While there may be benefits to religion that Felicia and Chandler haven't experienced, there is no doubt that the blame and guilt associated within Christianity requires the belief in free will....

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58. Leaving the Free Will System of Sin and Sacrifice in Christianity

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 03:21:43 GMT

Felicia Hogan did a great video about the type of human responsibility required for the Christian concept of sin. That was how we found her and asked her to be one of our cohosts. This episode is an hour long because both Chandler and Felicia have much to say about overcoming free will belief and wh....

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Free Will, Science, and Religion Podcast 6-7-2015 part 3

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 04:54:34 GMT

Pride can have more than one meaning. The type of pride that is problematic is the arrogance or entitlement that comes from a person believing they chose to be better than other people. This leads to them thinking they deserve better than other people....

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Free Will, Science, and Religion Podcast 6-7-2015 part 4

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 01:26:00 GMT

David Joseph and the other cohosts talk about what the future would be like in a world where people understand that nobody has a free will and nobody deserves more or less than anyone else. People may be treated more equally than in our current world..

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55. Gender Identity and Sexuality Orientation

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 04:41:30 GMT

For the determinist or incompatibilist, there is no longer a debate about sexuality or gender identity being a choice. We know that free will is an illusion and with this knowledge people will no longer blame those who don't fit into their traditions of what a man or woman is....

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Reduce Abortion Without Blaming Anyone

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 00:54:21 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Jamie Soden, David Joseph and Wsdtime talk about how we can help reduce abortion and eliminate the blaming that happens far too often whenever this subject comes up..

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Free Will, Science, and Religion Podcast 6-6-2015 part 2

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 07 Jun 2015 15:25:15 GMT

Chandler Klebs and George Ortega talk about the emotional needs that cause people to believe in free will and how knowing the truth about their causal will can actually make them feel better and does not deprive their life of meaning as some of them fear....

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Free Will, Science, and Religion Podcast 6-6-2015 part 1

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 07 Jun 2015 15:04:23 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and wsdtime talk about how we can move people away from blame and revenge. If our efforts are focused on identifying the cause of problems we can prevent them without the need to hate and punish people because of a feeling that they "deserve" it..

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50. 10 Reasons Why People Can’t Let Go of Their Free Will Belief

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 31 May 2015 20:36:04 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, and David Joseph discuss each of the ten points from Trick's blog post about the reasons people are unable to give up their belief in free will. http://breakingthefreewillillusion.com/10-reasons-free-will-belief/ You can visit the blog and read about ea....

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Free Will, Science, and Religion Podcast 5-31-2015 part 2

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 31 May 2015 20:43:55 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, and David Joseph explain why free will is impossible in a variety of ways. Causality, acausality, the unconscious, and the fact that we did not create ourselves all reveal that our wills are not of our own making....

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Free Will, Science, and Religion Podcast 5-30-2015 part 2

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 31 May 2015 04:33:15 GMT

Chandler Klebs, Jamie Soden, Anthony Bishop, and George Ortega talk about how forgiveness is the logical thing to do rather that just some moral command. John Searle, the 13th ranked post-1900 philosopher, says that our world overcoming the free will illusion "would be a bigger revolution in our thi....

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Free Will, Science, and Religion Podcast 5-30-2015 part 1

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 31 May 2015 02:20:23 GMT

Chandler Klebs, Jamie Soden, Anthony Bishop, and George Ortega talk about privacy and some of the dumb things people do that they are not to blame for and should probably be forgotten and not held against them for the rest of their lives....

Free Will, Science, and Religion Podcast 5-24-2015 part 1

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 24 May 2015 22:12:06 GMT

Chandler Klebs, Jamie Soden, David Joseph, and George Ortega talk about the different compatibilist definitions and why they do not defend the free will people believe in, but rather they define free will in ways that allow them to say that your butt farted of its own free will and blame a plant for....

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Free Will, Science, and Religion Podcast 5-24-2015 part 3

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 24 May 2015 22:33:44 GMT

Chandler Klebs, Jamie Soden, David Joseph, and George Ortega talk about some of the beliefs of Buddhism and the conflict between karma, the non-self, and the conflict of believing in free will. John Searle, the 13th ranked post-1900 philosopher, says that our world overcoming the free will illusion ....

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Free Will, Science, and Religion Podcast 5-24-2015 part 2

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 24 May 2015 22:27:05 GMT

Chandler Klebs, Jamie Soden, David Joseph, and George Ortega talk about what consciousness is and why it is not the same thing as having a free will or making choices. We may also need to expand our idea of who or what is conscious....

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Free Will, Science, and Religion Podcast 5-23-2015 part 2

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 24 May 2015 04:48:29 GMT

Chandler Klebs and George Ortega talk about why your life can have just as much meaning or possibly even more under the no free will understanding. The meaning of life is not something we choose but we can certainly find meaning in our lives even though we understand we are not in control of it....

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Free Will, Science, and Religion Podcast 5-23-2015 part 1

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 24 May 2015 04:37:19 GMT

Chandler Klebs and George Ortega talk about the belief in god relevant to free will and how theology might change for theists. Chandler is atheist and George is pantheist, but we have a serious talk about how it might affect people globally....

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Free Will, Science, and Religion Podcast 5-17-2015 part 1

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 17 May 2015 22:25:49 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, Jamie Soden, Anthony Bishop, David Joseph, and Brad Stansell refute free will and explain why this knowledge is the biggest thing ever! John Searle, the 13th ranked post-1900 philosopher, says that our world overcoming the free will illusion "would be a....

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Free Will, Science, and Religion Podcast 5-17-2015 part 3

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 18 May 2015 00:01:48 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, Jamie Soden, David Joseph, and Brad Stansell talk about what things will change in our thinking as people understand that free will is an illusion. One of them is that nobody owns anything at all because they didn't create anything....

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Free Will, Science, and Religion Podcast 5-17-2015 part 2

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 17 May 2015 23:54:27 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, Jamie Soden, Anthony Bishop, David Joseph, and Brad Stansell talk about why governments and other rich people blame the poor for their poverty. This injustice is already a problem, but it is also proven irrational when people are proven not to be respon....

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Free Will, Science and Religion Podcast 5-16-2015 part 3

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 17 May 2015 04:45:27 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Jamie Soden, and Anthony Bishop talk about some of the things that people say which reveals they don't truly believe we have a free will that can override our nature and nurture....

37. How Free Will Belief Causes Denial

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 17 May 2015 02:58:51 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and Jamie Soden talk about how the belief in free will causes people to feel guilty and go into denial about something rather than admit they made a mistake and change. George explains the difference between the good cop and bad cop approach to talking to criminals..

38. Introducing Anthony Bishop

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 17 May 2015 03:51:24 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and Jamie Soden talk to our new cohost Anthony Bishop. Anthony understands that we don't have the control over our brain chemistry that free will would require. Sleeping pills, caffeine, and all kinds of food and drugs alter our brain chemistry constantly....

34. Attributes of God vs Free Will

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Wed, 13 May 2015 02:57:44 GMT

Chandler Klebs, Derek Smeltzer, and George Ortega talk about the belief in free will and the contradiction between believing we have a free will while believing in an omnipotent or omniscient god. If god created us, then god caused us to do whatever we did....

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36. Inevitable Regrets

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Wed, 13 May 2015 05:02:23 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and Jamie Soden talk about some of their past regrets and how this helped them understand why they wish they could have done otherwise but that they could not have done any different unless their knowledge had been greater than it was at that time..

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35. Neither Causal Nor Acausal Events Grant Free Will

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Wed, 13 May 2015 03:19:03 GMT

Chandler Klebs, Derek Smeltzer, and George Ortega talk about why free will is impossible because it is ruled out by causality but also explain why acausality would be equally incompatible with us choosing what happens....

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33. Parallel Universes Do Not Lead to Free Will

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 11 May 2015 04:57:53 GMT

David Joseph, Jamie Soden , George Ortega, and Trick Slattery talk about parallel universes or many worlds. Whatever these things are, they do not prove free will. Are you in the universe where you choose pepsi or the universe where you choose coke? In any case, you didn't choose which universe you ....

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32. Communication Without Frustration

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 11 May 2015 04:29:10 GMT

David Joseph, Jamie Soden , George Ortega, and Trick Slattery continue their previous talk about anger and frustration. Our frustration in communicating with other people is very similar to frustration we experience in losing in a video game....

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31. Applying Knowledge to Our Emotions

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 11 May 2015 03:34:32 GMT

David Joseph, Jamie Soden , George Ortega, and Trick Slattery talk about how we deal with our emotions when people do things that cause pain. Even with the no free will understanding we may still feel upset when people do things that we believe are wrong or immoral....

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30. Afterlife and Free Will Belief

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 10 May 2015 03:30:25 GMT

Co-hosts Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Jamie Soden, and Will talk about the different ideas people have about an afterlife and how many of them are directly connected to the free will belief. Religions often teach that you get what you deserve in the afterlife based on your free choices....

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29. Determinism is not Fatalism

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 10 May 2015 02:57:02 GMT

In this episode, Chandler Klebs, Jamie Soden, Will, and George Ortega talk about the difference between determinism and fatalism. The main difference between the two is causality. Determinism means that our choices are caused by prior events....

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28. Free Will and Other Animals

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 04 May 2015 13:09:47 GMT

Chandler Klebs, Jamie Soden, and David Joseph talk about animals in the context of the free will debate. Many people claim that free will is something that humans have but that it does not apply to animals other than humans....

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27. How Procreation conflicts with Free Will

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 03 May 2015 04:11:33 GMT

Chandler Klebs and Jamie Soden talk about people's how desires for sex and procreation drive much of their behavior. Chandler believes that if people genuinely could make a so called “free choice”, that they would automatically turn off their sexual desires to avoid the trouble that comes with p....

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25. Infinite Regress

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 22:20:41 GMT

David Joseph, George Ortega, Felicia Hogan, Trick Slattery, Chandler Klebs, and Allen Worrell talk about the infinite regress. Chandler begins by explaining why he thinks an infinite regress follows for a determinist who believes everything is causal....

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24. Free Will Relevant to Heaven

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 21:28:31 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Jamie Soden, David Joseph, Felicia Hogan, Allen Worrell, and Trick Slattery talk about the belief in free will and its implications for the belief in heaven. Felicia introduces several problems related to heaven, the problem of evil, and free will....

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26. How No Free Will Understanding Helps Our Relationships

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 22:52:27 GMT

George Ortega, Chandler Klebs, Allen Worrell, David Joseph, and Trick Slattery talk about how it helps us both personally as well as a society after we give up the free will belief. One of the biggest changes is that it helps us understand the causes of human behavior and what causes might help them....

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23. When is Punishment Useful?

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 19 Apr 2015 21:57:27 GMT

Chandler begins the episode by trying to have a funny sounding accent. Then the cohosts talk once again about punishment and the purpose it might serve. Punishment sometimes serves as a deterrent. However, there is a difference between punishing for deterrence and punishing someone in revenge with a....

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22. How we came to see Free Will as an Illusion

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 19 Apr 2015 21:19:28 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, David Joseph, Michael Walsh, and Felicia Hogan share stories of how they lost belief in Free Will. Michael is new to the podcast and so he starts out telling his story. Next Felicia(YouTuber Firewalker 92615 )tells us her story again....

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21. Don't Become the Monster You Hate

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 19 Apr 2015 04:51:21 GMT

Chandler Klebs and Jamie Soden talk about how the laws in our countries cause us to believe what we do about certain things. Also, we talk about the wrongness of bullying people for having different views than they do....

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20. Changes in Morality

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 12 Apr 2015 21:16:20 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, and David Joseph talk about the differences in morality depending on whether or not people believe in free will. Some people claim that if people stop believing in free will, they will start acting more unethically....

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19. Why Partial or Limited Free Will is Wrong

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 12 Apr 2015 20:25:47 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, and David Joseph talk about the claim that we don't have complete free will, but we have a little bit of free will. Some believe that some decisions are more free than others....

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18. Free Will: What it Means, Why we Don't Have it, and Why it Matters

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 12 Apr 2015 05:41:14 GMT

Chandler Klebs, Michael Laster, and Nick Vale go through the basics of what people usually mean by free will, why it can't exist, and the implications of understanding this and applying it to our lives....

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17. How Free Will Belief Hurts Us

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 13:24:51 GMT

George Ortega, Chandler Klebs, and Jamie Soden talk about the harms of believing in free will. We also talk about religions that tend to promote free will belief and cause great harm. The important thing to understand is that we can't blame people for the harm they cause no matter how upset we might....

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16. Misunderstandings and What We Do About it

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 10:24:14 GMT

Often when talking with people, we have errors in communicating. Some of this is is because of the limitations of human languages. Other times, it is due to a difference in experience and words being used differently in their culture....

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15. Punishment, Deterrence, and Correction

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 05:16:33 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and David Joseph talk about punishment and how our ideas about it will change as the world starts to understand that we don't have a free will and nothing is up to us. Rewards and punishments are sometimes useful in modifying behavior but they should never be done beca....

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14. What is our message?

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 09:01:56 GMT

Chandler Klebs, Trick Slattery, George Ortega, and David Joseph talk about what the message of this podcast is and what it is not. People do not need to fear anything from knowing we don't have a free will....

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13. Different Definitions of Terms.

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Sun, 05 Apr 2015 21:21:00 GMT

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, and David Joseph talk about how certain words have different meanings to different people. This causes confusion about terms like free will, choice, randomness, god, etc....

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12. Other Topics

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 09:22:46 GMT

Chandler and George Ortega share their very controversial opinions about consciousness, intelligence, the illusion of self, and many other things. This was sort of unusual because most of our podcasts were about why free will is an illusion....

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11. When Do We Become Conscious?

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 05:09:13 GMT

The cohosts disagree about the role of consciousness in our actions and also at what point humans become conscious. George says our decisions are made by the unconscious brain before we become aware of them....

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10. Happy Conscious Robots

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 09:34:51 GMT

When we know that we aren't the source of anything we do, we can no longer be proud or arrogant. We cannot brag about what "we" did any more than another robot can. However we can still be happy being what we are and doing what we do....

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9. Right Way to Think

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 00:40:17 GMT

George Ortega, Gary Mosher, David Joseph, Trick Slattery, and Chandler Klebs talk about the meaning of "free". We clarify what the free will debate is really about. It's not about political freedom. You must first have a constraint before the word free can have any context....

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8. Criminal Justice System

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Tue, 05 May 2015 19:09:29 GMT

George Ortega, Trick Slattery, and Jamie Soden talk about the criminal justice system and how the free will belief leads us to blame people for crimes and cause them to suffer in unnecessary ways. We need to move away from revenge and switch to methods that deter and correct criminals away from doin....

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7. Podcast Publishing Goals

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 10:38:39 GMT

Chandler Klebs and George Ortega talk about our plans for this podcast and how we will recruit cohosts and publish the recordings. We send group emails and set up Skype sessions with a variety of cohosts and talk about what is most interesting to them....

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6. God's Omniscience Versus Free Will

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 10:34:41 GMT

Chandler Klebs and George Ortega talk about the logical conflict between an omniscient god who knows the future with the belief that we can freely choose to do differently than what god knows we can do....

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5. These People Just Don't Get It!

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 16:19:58 GMT

Chandler Klebs and George Ortega talk about why academics don't understand why free will is an illusion. Even when they do understand it, what keeps them from promoting this message? George thinks that they are unable to overcome their emotional needs to believe that things are different than what t....

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4. Age of Responsibility?

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 02:11:25 GMT

Chandler, George, Jamie, Felicia, David, and Will talk about responsibility, the criminal justice system and how the truth of our unfree will fits into all of this. We also talk about the common fears and myths surrounding the topic that keeps people from accepting the most basic truth of human will....

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3. Why it's important to know we don't have a free will

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Tue, 05 May 2015 18:24:01 GMT

What has the universe compelled you do feel today? Nick Vale, George Ortega, and Jamie Soden talk about the importance of knowing we don't have free will. This is a big change in our consciousness that we will benefit from but perhaps not everyone is ready for it....

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2. Hedonic Imperative

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 02:07:12 GMT

Trick Slattery, George Ortega, and Jamie Soden talk about the hedonic imperative or pleasure principle. We seek pleasure and avoid pain. This is just one of many reasons we don't have a free will. People keep doing what feels good(pleasure) and try to avoid what feels bad(pain)....

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1. Introduction to the podcast

chandlerklebs@gmail.com (Chandler Klebs) — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 18:55:55 GMT

This is the premier episode. George Ortega, Trick Slattery, and Chandler Klebs talk, define some terms, and talk about why free will is impossible and how they explain it in their books they published....

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