Me & My Free Will

I gave a very brief presentation (total 15 minutes with Q&A) at Teesside’s Skeptics in the Pub (SitP) open-mike night last Thursday. Since it was my first such outing I gave a couple of minutes intro to what I’m doing here in and around Psybertron, before choosing to major on Free-Will.

A PDF of the presentation MeAndMyFreeWill is here with all the links to the reference sources.

It seemed to go down pretty well and going last of 6 presentations left me with the advantage of an audience able to continue the Q&A into discussions. Having the “hooks” in the introductory slides on my many interconnected topics and sources was not only useful to the discussion, but the entire exercise of condensing my whole interconnected agenda into a few bullet points and slides was useful too.

Thanks to Teesside SitP and thanks to the audience on the night.

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[Post Note: The most up to date / topical stuff — the continuation of the Harris / Dennett conversation happened only the week before so not had chance to review and comment in detail. From my initial notes — despite now returning to respectful dialogue, the differences remain great and real. From my notes Dennett is still on the right track. More later.]

[Post Note: Also worth contrasting with my reaction to Graham Bell’s opposing talk at London Active Atheists Group last year. Lots of other reference links.]