The Future Is Now
Brian Greene explains why space and time are part of a single continuum and why that means that everything that will ever happen HAS ALREADY HAPPENED somewhere in space-time. As I try to explain in the book, this means it…
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What Does A Slinky Have To Do With Free Will?
The answer is - I have no idea! However the below video and the RadioLab podcast "What A Slinky Knows" bring up some interesting philosophical issues about time, information and the nature of our perceptions. What happens to the bottom…
A new Sam Harris article on living without free will.
Sam Harris has posted a new article today called "Life Without Free Will". He starts off: One of the most common objections to my position on free will is that accepting it could have terrible consequences, psychologically or socially. This…
Krauss on free will.
Lawrence Krauss a Canadian-American theoretical physicist who is a professor of physics, Foundation Professor of the School of Earth and Space Exploration, and director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University. He is the author of several bestselling books, including…
What Do You See?
Another mind-bending illusion. Hard to believe that what-you-think-is-real is NOT, isn't it? Yet the facts remain.
Three Illusions Facebook Group
I have set up a Facebook Group for us to discuss the concepts and ideas contained in the book. Feel free to join up!
The enlightenment experience
Once you get it, there is no going back. Someone suggested to me recently that some people 'have the enlightenment experience' but then they go back to living the old way. To me this seems unlikely. The 'enlightenment experience', if…
Scientists Deny Free Will
A hot topic for several thousand years, the question of whether free will exists may never be settled to everyone's satisfaction. But in a series of new articles for the Chronicles of Higher Education, six academics from diverse fields offer…
No Free Will Does Not Mean We Don’t Learn
I love getting questions or challenges from readers and I will respond to as many of them as I can here. Last night I was talking to a reader who happens to be my mother. Her feeling was that…
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