Free Will: Its Refutation, Societal Cost and Role in Climate Change Denial

De: George Ortega

Narrado por: Philip D. Moore

While the author's previous book on the matter, Exploring the Illusion of Free Will, Second Edition, is a popular work, this brief discourse is decidedly and robustly academic. The audiobook focuses exclusively on the physical refutation of the free will construct, concurrently addressing claims that because we are human, our choices are somehow exempt from physical law. It also delves deeply into quantum mechanical principles and phenomena relevant to the free will question, siding with Einstein, Bohm, Hawking, Krauss, and others regarding the causal nature of both the macro and quantum world.

The refutations presented hopefully describe the physical evidence against free will with sufficient strength and clarity to win over more hitherto agnostic minds than have earlier attempts by other authors. The audiobook's original contributions to the literature on human agency are that it presents an a priori argument for the causality that refutes free will and that it not only challenges recent published warnings of dangerous repercussions from abandoning belief in free will, but it also presents a convincing argument for humanity evolving beyond a notion of free choice that seems the catalyst for more harm than good.

The author presents evidence associating the psychological defense mechanism known as "denial" with free will belief and proposes that a belief in human autonomy's correlate of fundamental moral responsibility amplifies the widespread denial of the existence and anthropogenic origin of a climate change crisis that, unless successfully mitigated, many prominent scientists fear poses a serious threat to the civilization we know.

©2014 George Ortega (P)2018 George Ortega

A predetermined belief that this book is a falicy!

According to this philosophy we have no choice in anything. That everything, every action, every thought, every event is all predetermined by the cause and effects of the universe, beginning with the big bang. It fundamentally denies the existence of a God, a devine creator, and avails ourselves from any responsibility for anything. Then the author attributes denial of a belief in climate change as a function of our flawed belief in free will. As a doctor in geology, I can point out many flaws in climate change assumptions, skewed science and statistics, radical theories, inaccurate observations, denial of the history of the earth and geology or climatology, and a general appeal to human emotions, extremist ideologies, that ignore the facts in favor of a cult like following. This goes along with a denial of God as well.