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Pride Goeth: Free Will Redux

March 5, 2008 by Norm Bearrentine Leave a Comment

Originally posted on 06-01-07: I got involved in the electric bicycle project yesterday, and forgot all about the morning post. I wrote a couple of paragraphs after dinner and gave up, struggling with brain fatigue. I've … [Read more...]

When I realized that the idea of god was a joke, I thought that was the end of the story. Later I found that Christianity had shaped my values, and while some were worth keeping, many had lost their foundation—the meaning of life, for example. Something similar happened when I realized that the idea of free will was a joke, and I’ve spent the decades since both those realizations discovering and editing what Julia Galef calls the “orphan beliefs” they left behind. It’s a tricky business, and this blog has been a chronicle of my efforts to puzzle it all out, including reviews of related books. I hope you find it helpful.