Overview
- Consciousness is the same thing as brain activity (as opposed to requiring a brain)
- The conscious mind, though real, plays no significant role in human life
- The human mind is not significantly different from that of the lower animals such as chimpanzees
- All causes are material (or mechanical)
- Goal-directed action applies equally to people and machines
- The concept of a self or the self as a causal agent has no intelligible meaning
- Key neuroscience experiments have proven that the intention to act appears after the brain has already decided what to do
- Determinism is not only compatible with objective knowledge but is also the only guarantee of objective knowledge, because it is based on scientific truth
- Determinism has to be either proved or disproved based on philosophical and/or scientific arguments
- Free will, at best, is a necessary illusion
- Elementary particles which make up our brain act at random, thus refuting causal necessity
- Free will and determinism are compatible
- Religion validates free will
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