Author: Daniel Witt
Revenge of the Turtle Lady
You’ve probably heard the story about the old lady who tells a Famous Professor that the world is actually sitting on the back of giant turtle.
Did Evolution Give Us Free Will? (Continued)
The door is open to other causes — even those that neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell himself would prefer to keep out.
Did Evolution Give Us Free Will?
If you pick up a book up about free will by a materialist, you are generally safe to assume that the point will be to explain that free will is an illusion.
Biologist Michael Levin: A Farewell to Physicalism
Levin proposes a “radical Platonist view in which some of the causal input into mind and life originates outside the physical world.”
Origin of Life Challenge: $10 Million, Just Lying Around
This is an obvious way to judge such theories. If someone claims to know how to make something, the natural response is, “Let’s see it, then.”