35. If We Had a Free Will, We Could...

In this episode of Exploring the Illusion of Free Will, taped on September 6,2011, I describe all of the things we could do if we really had a free will.

The debate over whether humans have a free will languished for centuries in academia. In 2010, George Ortega decided it was time to move the issue to the public arena in a big way. Ortega spearheaded a buzz about free will that ultimately led to an explosion in mainstream media and Internet coverage, including cover stories by New Scientist and Scientific American Mind magazines. For a description and chronology of how he did it, see "History of How Refuting Free Will Went From Academia to the Public Spotlight" at http://exogenousagency.wordpress.com/... The article includes over three dozen hyper-linked mainstream press articles on the topic between 2004 and 2012.

For dozens of episodes from the world's first and only ongoing initiative exclusively dedicated to exposing free will as an illusion, visit Ortega's site at http://causalconsciousness.com/. Our initiative includes two television programs - A weekly show with live call-in episodes on Manhattan's MNN, and a weekly television series cablecast to White Plains, New York, select Westchester, County, New York communities and Manhattan.

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[anarchistmasseur]

i like the idea of not blaming ourselves and others; and of being humbly grateful when you do good things.

how about this as a concept: from my favorite revolutionary mentor.

the past was determined.

from this moment on we have free will.

[Georgeo57]

Yes, overcoming blame is the principle benefit of disbelief in free will. The problem is that if we truly had a free will, who among us would choose to feel the unpleasant feelings that seem unavoidable, or be anything less than perfectly good?