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#11B FREE WILL I believe that humans have the power to freely choose between alternatives, exercise rational control over their actions, and generally shape their destinies. I believe those who preach “whatever will be, will be” and claim “the future’s not ours to see” are fools. I see resigned helplessness, and waiting for God to solve problems people could solve themselves, as dangerous. (Note: Appreciation of quantum mechanics and chaos theory has led many scientists away from the notion that complex events always unfold in rigidly determined, predictable ways.) |
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...individual <---> knowledge |
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the theme is paired with: #11A Fatalism |
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| Self Determination | Free Will | deliberation | |
| nature vs. nurture | recognizes free agents have moral responsibility | Personalism | |
| appreciates probability | compatibilism | appreciates factors limiting predictability | |
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worldview internal inconsistency related: Strongly valuing this theme and any of the themes in the list below is a contradiction: |
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| #7A
Mysticism |
#9B In God's Hands: Apocalypticism | #15 The Group Think Imperative | #33B Addiction |
| #34 Valuing Traditions and Status Quo | #44A Sanctity & Dignity of Life |
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More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #11B: Free Will |
| Free Will (from online philosophy encyclopedia) |
| Free Will and Determinism, by Paul Newall (an introduction for "beginners") |
| Free Will Article Summaries (detailed summaries of important papers posted on Quantum Mind website) |
| A Case for Free Will and Determinism, by Ben Best |
| The Nature of Free Will |
| Free Will, by Robert Kane (read portions of this 2001 book at Google Books) |
| Sentience, Free Will, and Self Determination, by Vincent Bridges |
| Nudge, by R. Thaler & C. Sunstein (book with insight into what influences people when they are faced with a decision.) |
| De La Mettrie's Ghost, by Chris Nunn (review of book about decision-making and the nature of free will) |
| In
the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune
(fiction in which free will theme is important, book reviews from Goodreads
March 2023) |
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"Does Quantum Mechanics Rule Out Free Will? By John Horgan (Superdeterminism, a radical quantum hypothesis, says our “choices” are illusory from Scientific American March 10 2022) |
| "Does
Superdeterminism Resolve Dilemmas Around Free Will?" By Michael Egnor
(posted on Mind Matters December 26 2021) |
| "Is Realism Compatible with Randomness?" (physicist's examination of this posted on arxiv.org Dec 2010) |
| "The Free-Will Postulate in Quantum Mechanics," by Gerard t'Hooft (a Physics Nobel Laureate's perspective) |
| Does Free Will Arise Freely? (article from Scientific American Mind) |
| “Book Of The Year: How Physics Makes Us Free” by John Farrell (review in Forbes of 2016 book by Jeann Ismael, University of Arizona philosophy professor) |
| "New Views of Quantum Jumps Challenge Core Tenets of Physics" By Eleni Petrakou (posted on Scientific American website December 29, 2020) |
| "From Chaos to Free Will" by George Ellis (June 9 2020 article by physicist explains why enthusiasm for determinism among physicists has faded) |
| “Wrestling
the Demon: the Physics of Free Will” (Feb
15 2018 on Physics Buzz
blog) |
| “The
Physics of Free Will” by Kimberly Anne Clinch ( Jan 14, 2018 post in
Helix
from Northwestern University) |
| Connected by N. Christakis and J. Fowler (2009 book about how social networks shape behavior) |
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"There's No Such Thing As Free Will" by Stephen Cave (article in The Atlantic June 2016) |
| "Free Will, Randomness and Non-locality" by Dolors (posted article / video May 2016 with comments from physicist Nicolas Gisin) |
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The
End of Karma By Somini Sengupta (review of
book about India’s youth “trading fatalism and karma for free
will” in The Economist Mar 19 2016) |
| "The War on Reason" by Paul Bloom (article on "the war against free will" from The Atlantic March 2014) |
| "Is "Nonreductive Physicalism" An Oxymoron?" by Nancey Murphy (paper: downward causation ==>neurobiology) |
| "Free Will and the Brain: Self Interest" (article in Dec 17 2011 The Economist) |
| "Why Genes Aren't Destiny," by John Cloud (article in Jan 18 2010 Time magazine) |
| "Bring in the Noise" by Melinda Wenner (article in July, 2008 Scientific American about biochemical randomness) |
| Defending Free Will--A Fruit Fly Makes Choices (2007 news item) |
| The Flaw of Fatalism, by Thomas W. Clark (1998 essay) |
| Compatibilism (Soft Determinism) and W.T. Stace (includes Stace's contribution to Religion and the Modern Mind) |
| Determinism and Moral Responsibility |
| Christian Forums-Free Will vs. Determinism |
| Religion and the Scientific Method, by George N. Scheslinger (read portions of this book at Google Books) |
| The Determinism and Freedom Philosophy Website (includes links to many papers on this topic) |
| The Dogmatic Determinism of Daniel Dennett (includes review of Dennett's 2006 book Freedom Evolves) |
| Free Will, by Miroslav Backonja (ch .13 in book 20 Greatest Unsolved Problems, ed. J. Vacca,) |
| Desiring God's Will by D. Benner (explores the transformation of the will in Christian spirituality) |
| quotes on free will from Samuel Johnson |
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"As you shop in "The Reality Marketplace" avoid
spending your "reality cash" too early, before you have
seen
everything. "
from Coming of Age in the Global Village,
by
Stephen P. Cook, with Donella H. Meadows.