Ep 20: Predestination vs Free Will

The Christian Transhumanist Podcast

Why do some people believe it's all determined, and others believe it's up to us? Religious or irreligious, scientist or non-scientist, transhumanist or singularitarian—people can't agree on this subject. We look to CS Lewis, Ghostbusters, the Beatles, and Jupiter's moon for answers!

• The word Micah was looking for was "contrarian"
• Calvinists vs Arminians
• Singularitarians and technological determinists vs Transhumanists
• "A similar difference"
• Church-centric vs Gospel-centric
• Sam Harris against Free Will vs atheism as the apotheosis of free will
• Does believing in free will give you free will?
• James Dobson's The Strong-Willed Child
• Unschooling
• The Problem of Evil is basically just the problem of parenting
• Game Theory and the Prisoner's Dilemma
• Blue Like Jazz, the book, and the movie scene starring Micah!
• I Am the Walrus
• Ghostbusters, the original, and the new all-female version
• TULIP, the points of Calvinism
• Calvinism as Ghostbusters?
• The Christian theological idea that increasing unity means increasing individuality and diversity, as seen in CS Lewis, and in Teilhard de Chardin's The Phenomenon of Man
• Using our free will to increase other's free will
• How God imposes limits in order to increase free will in the future
• Finite and Infinite Games (see also Micah's take on Infinite Morality)
• The origins of the term Catfishing
• Alternative educational approaches
• Google's 20 percent time
• Is the end result of religion the creation of Heavenly robots?
• Revolution is followed by Orthodoxy, just as wakefulness is followed by sleep
• Orthodoxy is the struggle to maintain the revolution
• For example: "All foods are clean!" followed by the Greek Orthodox fasting schedule of 200+ days per year
• Micah's wardrobe follows the Steve Jobs approach—wear the same clothes everyday, like a cartoon character
• Boundaries as minimum operating conditions for an open-ended future
• Does Europa's hidden ocean disprove the existence of God?
• CS Lewis' science fiction trilogy shows how a Christian imagination can encompass a much larger universe
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