Tag: Marcelo Gleiser
New Brain Research Supports Free Will
Researchers, altering Libet’s classical experiment, found that human brains show no “readiness potential” when a decision is important.
Recognizing Providence in the History of Life Is a Hint About Our Own Lives
Any of us can point to certain pivotal events in our past that need not have occurred, but did.
Physicist: Why the “Alien Simulation” Hypothesis Is Bunk
Assuming that the regression does not continue endlessly, only the First Simulator is real. But then, why do any simulators even bother?
Does Science Disprove Free Will? A Physicist Says No
Marcelo Gleiser notes that the mind is not a solar system with strict deterministic laws.
Astronomer: We Can’t Just Assume Countless Earths Out There
The Copernican Principle has been misused to imply that Earth is somehow insignificant. That is a philosophical attitude, unrelated to the science.