Publications Conferences and Lectures Research Topics Zen Memetics
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Publications I don't believe that our will is "free" but I do believe it is possible to give up the illusion that it is. We can still live a moral and fulfilling life without believing in free will. Read Blackmore, S.J. (2007) In The Myth of Free Will, Ed. Cris Evatt, Cafe Essays, Princeville, HI, Foreword (ix-xiv) and Living Happily and Morally (49-51)
Blackmore, S.J. (2005) It is possible to live happily
and morally without believing in free will. In What We
Believe But Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on
Science in the Age of Certainty. Ed. John Brockman, Free
Press, 41-2 There is also a large section in my textbook Consciousness: An Introduction devoted to questions of free will and agency. Indeed I discuss free to some extent in most of my books. There is a chapter in Zen and the Art of Consciousness, and I ask all the conversationalists in my book Conversations on Consciousness the question "Do you have free will?". Their responses are very telling. Listen ... to a 4 minute snippet from "The Myth of Free Will", part of the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival, in Liverpool, broadcast on 2.11.08 "Free will and why I don't believe in it". Podcast for G'Day World 22 May 2008
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