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What counts as a being?

Jeff Carreira March 4, 2014 Philosophy 1 Comment

I believe that the most important philosophical question of our time is, what counts as a being? A thing is an object. It doesn’t count as a being. We can use things, manipulate them and …

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William James, The Stream of Consciousness and Freewill

Jeff Carreira March 21, 2013 Popular Posts 22 Comments

William James was trained as a medical doctor at Harvard University and became generally recognized as the first psychologist in America and his first and arguably most significant written work was “The Principles of Psychology” published …

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Is Freewill compatable with Determinism? Some thoughts on Jonathan Edwards

Jeff Carreira July 25, 2009 Philosophy 15 Comments

I am posting today from the beautiful hills of the Tuscany region of Italy and I am about to start a 20 day spiritual retreat with teacher Andrew Cohen. During my travels here I decided …

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Is there any Intelligence in the Universe?

Jeff Carreira July 20, 2009 Philosophy 21 Comments

I have been reading more about Behaviorism, including the article that Carl sent us by Robert Epstein, so that we could get a little clearer here about exactly what we are looking into.  Maybe I …

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The Freewill of a Creative System

Jeff Carreira July 13, 2009 Philosophy 12 Comments

I am amazed by all of the insightful comments on my last post. It seems that many of us are comfortable with the idea that perhaps freewill is not a characteristic of an individual, but …

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More thoughts on the freedom of so called “Freewill”

Jeff Carreira June 15, 2009 Philosophy 14 Comments

“Spinoza says that if a stone which has been projected through the air had consciousness, it would believe that it was moving of its own will . I add to this only that the stone …

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The Evolution of Freedom in the Universe

Jeff Carreira June 10, 2009 Philosophy 15 Comments

I am inspired by all of your thoughtful and provocative comments to my last post and captivated by this idea that what we experience as freewill is not actually a quality of a human being, …

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So what is so FREE about freewill anyway?

Jeff Carreira June 4, 2009 Philosophy 9 Comments

Now that we have discussed more about continuity and spontaneity as fundamental aspect of the universe, and opened up the discussion about what Conscious Evolution actually is, it is time to update my thoughts about …

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Conscious Evolution and Free Will?

Jeff Carreira April 20, 2009 Philosophy 14 Comments

Part of the controversy over Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution has always been its deterministic tone. Darwin saw evolution as happening through the combination of chance variation and natural selection. The theory goes something like …

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