If every action spilts the universe into different versions, what does that mean for free will?
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The captain of a ship, or a soul, doesn’t sail while ignoring the wind – sometimes they go with it, sometimes against it, but they always account for it.
Your beliefs about free will can have a powerful effect on how you behave.
If an alien landed on Earth, how would you decide if it had free will like us, or was a sophisticated automaton?
By surrendering to technology are humans sleepwalking into a future where free will is less and less of an option?
A new study with fruit flies suggests that we may have less free will when it comes to choosing what we eat than we like to think.
If you believe that you are in charge of your life and your actions, does that mean you also feel more like yourself?
The best guard against a free market’s downsides and consumer culture is for individual consumers to take responsibility for their choices.
Study finds identical twins more likely to vote the same way – unless they back the Lib Dems.
An American neuroscientist claims to have solved the problem of free will. Peter Tse, who works at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, says that the key to free will lies in how neurons can rewire each…
For most of the last couple of centuries, philosophers have had the question of free will largely to themselves (prior to that date, the distinction between philosophy and the natural sciences was less…
The debate over the use of mandatory pre-commitment technology in poker machines is the latest front in an ongoing war that pits advocates of personal responsibility against people motivated by concerns…
Science and religion are often cast as opponents in a battle for human hearts and minds. But far from the silo of strict creationism and the fundamentalist view that evolution simply didn’t happen lies…
Quantum mechanics (the theory of atoms, quarks and photons) is definitely weird and, thanks to the work I’m doing, it might be getting weirder. Allow me to throw a quantum spanner in the works. In the…
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