Tag: free will
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God foresees everything. But wait a minute, he just can’t
Religions teach that God sees everything—past, present, and future. The claim sounds comforting. It promises order in chaos and purpose in suffering. Yet it hides a fatal flaw. If God truly foresees everything, then the future is fixed. And if the future is fixed, neither God nor humans can change anything. Divine foreknowledge collapses into…
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Ten Commandments – extensive critique
They always say that if people act as the Ten Commandments tell, the world would be a perfect place. Not only this is not true, but actually Ten Commandments direct this world into a really ugly place. Here is my extensive critique. Basics for morality? Oh no! Christians consider the Ten Commandments a basis for…
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Free will and the wealth of the nations
I am not an Adam Smith and this article about free will and the wealth of nations is definitely not a sequel to his genius book. However, the article plays with the notion that nearly all people believe in free will. However there are major disparities between individual nations and their subsequent wealth. So where…
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Serial killer Carl Panzram as a moral man, how to judge people, the legal system and free will
People are evolutionarily equipped to be highly vindictive. “Germans can be lucky! We could have killed them all because of what they had done in WW2!” A sometimes popular Czech opinion. “I wish Vladimir Putin the worst agony that can ever be!” Another popular opinion. When it comes to jail times, most people are for…
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Philosophy should stop talking about free will. It is none of its business
Philosophy couldn’t even come up with its own definition for the thousands of years of its own existence and they school us what definition of free will is. Whom we can imagine when saying the word “philosophy”? For example Willard Van Orman Quine, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Bertrand Russell, and even Martin Heidegger. Everything can be…
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Even if we had free will
As you may know, I don’t believe in anything as free will. The brain is either deterministic or inter-deterministic and this leaves no place for free will. Every neuron impulse is determined by the previous one. For example, when you choose what ice cream to buy, it may by decision of hundred of neurons you…