{"id":216,"date":"2019-07-11T15:47:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T19:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/?page_id=216"},"modified":"2021-01-28T18:02:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T23:02:50","slug":"6-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/science-or-superstition\/part-5\/6-4\/","title":{"rendered":"&#128194;  6.4 Minds, Machines and Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If everything in the universe is composed of matter moving and changing form as a result of purely physical forces acting upon us, what place is there for human free will, for moral choices and obligations, for meaning in life? This is the challenging philosophical problem of freedom and determinism which we explore here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!-- Page-list plugin v.6.3 wordpress.org\/plugins\/page-list\/ -->\n<ul class=\"page-list subpages-page-list \">\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-526\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/science-or-superstition\/part-5\/6-4\/crash-course-on-human-freedom\/\">&#128250; Crash Course: On Human Freedom<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-213\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/science-or-superstition\/part-5\/6-4\/cogs-in-the-machine\/\">&#128250; Cogs in the machine<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-523\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/science-or-superstition\/part-5\/6-4\/slideshow-minds-machines-freedom\/\">&#128200;  Slideshow: Minds, Machines and Freedom<\/a><\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If everything in the universe is composed of matter moving and changing form as a result of purely physical forces<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":49,"menu_order":640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-216","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","comments-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6159,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/216\/revisions\/6159"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}