Michael and David discuss the ongoing debate between advocates of free will and determinism. Do humans have free will or is their behavior entirely unfree and fixed? Other subjects include scientism, religion, dogma, faith vs. knowledge, the origin of morality, the importance of reason, basic principles, heroes, values, posthumanism, the organic computer, the universe as computer simulation, man as artist, the outsider, the psychotic Left, suppressed knowledge, vilified geniuses of philosophy, satanism, the evil man’s choices, toxic parenting, the guilt complex. This and more…
Program References
Ayn Rand
Nathaniel Branden
Scientism
Determinism
Mirror Neurons
Ego-Ideal
Role Model
Emergence Theory
Religious Naturalism
Pre-Established Harmony
Process Philosophy
Process Theology
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Wordsworth
Paul Tillich
Gabriel Marcel
Noosphere
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Suggested Reading
The Romantic Manifesto
Escape from Freedom
Light, Magic, Masonry (Article)
The Freedom of Man (Article)
Mysticism (Truth or Falsity)
Disciples of the Mysterium
Schelling: Understanding German Idealism
Adultism: The Role of the Terrible Mother
Sleepwalkers (A. Koestler)
Ghost in the Machine (A. Koestler)
Act of Creation (A. Koestler)
Art and Physics (Leonard Shlain)
Sex, Ecology & Spirituality (Ken Wilber)
The Master & His Emissary (Iain McGilchrist)
Nature’s Mind (Michael S. Gazzaniga)
The Ancestral Mind (Gregg Jacobs)
The End of Materialism (Charles Tart)
The Illusion of Determinism (Edwin Locke)
Cosmos and Psyche (Richard Tarnas)
The Science Delusion (Richard Sheldrake)
Skeptical About Skeptics (Cathi Carol)
The Brain & Inner World (Mark Solms)
Designed to Evolve (Christopher Davis)
Biocentrism (Robert Lanza)
Beyond Physicalism (Edward Kelly)
The Irreducible Mind (Michael Grosso)
The Embodied Mind (Francesco Varela)
The Immortal Mind (Ervin Lazlo)
The Intelligence of the Cosmos (Ervin Lazlo)
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Mysticism (Premium)
Idealism (Part 4)
Path of the Fool
Cards of Darkness I
Myth of the Noble Savage
Radical Unschooling
Four Planes of Child Development
Adultism: The Reign of the Terrible Mother
Ayn Rand 1
Ayn Rand 2
Ayn Rand 3
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