Tag: Denyse O’Leary
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.
Dawkins and Picard Win This Year’s Trotter Prize
A reflection on the 2025 Trotter Prize Lecture delivered by Oxford’s Richard Dawkins and MIT’s Rosalind Picard.
What Lies Beyond Death? A Physicist’s Take
The very existence of life — the fact that we are here at all to the pose the question — calls for something more than physical nature.
What Does Your Brain Do? And What Can It Not Do?
A surprising result of pioneering neurosurgery was the discovery that some mental processes could be stimulated in the brain but others could not be.
Our View of Nature Matters; Here’s Why
I was standing amidst the ruins of the Berghof, Hitler’s retreat near the German-Austrian border, where some of the worst atrocities in history were planned.