{"id":907,"date":"2007-01-04T09:10:20","date_gmt":"2007-01-04T09:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=907"},"modified":"2007-01-04T09:10:20","modified_gmt":"2007-01-04T09:10:20","slug":"free_will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=907","title":{"rendered":"Free Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/01\/02\/science\/02free.html?ei=5087%0A&#038;em=&#038;en=1fb04ffddd27042e&#038;ex=1168059600&#038;adxnnl=1&#038;pagewanted=print&#038;adxnnlx=1167919776-88P4WNl\/GsuOCML9OeqmIA\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a>:<br \/>\nMark Hallett, a researcher with the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Free will does exist, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a perception, not a power or a driving force. People experience free will. They have the sense they are free.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The more you scrutinize it, the more you realize you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have it,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<br \/>\nThat is hardly a new thought. The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said, as Einstein paraphrased it, that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a human can very well do what he wants, but cannot will what he wants.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nEinstein, among others, found that a comforting idea. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This knowledge of the non-freedom of the will protects me from losing my good humor and taking much too seriously myself and my fellow humans as acting and judging individuals,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"http:\/\/titusonenine.classicalanglican.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Titusonenine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the New York Times: Mark Hallett, a researcher with the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Free will does exist, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a perception, not a power or a driving force. People experience free will. They have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=907\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}