Are We Really Making Volitional Choices?

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i think the materialist reason to deny free will is not valid. Because i don't think the nurans cause your consciousness. I think thenurancs are what certain conscious processes look like, even conscious processes s that you cannot act access through introspection because they exceed the boundaries of matter ognition. So all of that appears to observation from across a dissociative boundary as what we call your on firing. And it's in that sense that i say there is free will. But if you press me, i would tell you, libertarian free will is an incoherent concept. Itit doesn't mean anything. A choice has to be determined by something, otherwise it's

In this expansive conversation, Michael Shermer speaks with Bernardo Kastrup, the executive director of Essentia Foundation. His work has been leading the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another Ph.D. in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence). Shermer and Kastrup discuss: materialism, idealism, dualism, monism, panpsychism, free will, determinism, consciousness, the problem of other minds, artificial intelligence, out of body and near-death experiences, model dependent realism, and the ultimate nature of reality.