{"id":236872,"date":"2023-07-17T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=236872"},"modified":"2023-07-03T03:16:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T02:16:19","slug":"the-paradox-of-free-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/07\/the-paradox-of-free-will\/","title":{"rendered":"The Paradox of Free Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Neuroscience, Physics, and Philosophy of Freedom in a Universe of Fixed Laws<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Journalist Melissa Hogenboom and a constellation of neuroscientists, physicists, and philosophers explore the science and subtleties of the <strong>free will<\/strong> question \u2014 a question that remains not only unanswered but a testament to Hannah Arendt\u2019s astute observation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cTo lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking and cease to ask unanswerable questions [would be to lose] the capacity to ask all the answerable questions upon which every civilization is founded.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Free_Will\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/557541237?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Neuroscience, Physics, and Philosophy of Freedom in a Universe of Fixed Laws<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[711,3074],"class_list":["post-236872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-videos","tag-documentary","tag-free-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236875,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236872\/revisions\/236875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}