Judgment, Free Will & Consciousness (Show 081)

Show 081 consists of a fantastic discussion among Mosley, Arthur, and the chat room participants regarding the nature of judgment, free will, and consciousness. After a brief recap and a few clarifying examples of applied judgment, the topic moves on to the relevant issue of free will. This then develops into a very interesting discussion on the nature of consciousness.

Topics include: follow-up on Pittsburgh smoking ban; review of judgment; examples of applied judgment; what free will is; the primary choice as the choice to focus or not; focus vs. being aware; determinism; policeman thought experiment; consciousness reduced to material processes as non-problematic; suspending judgment because of determinist view as erroneous; nature of consciousness; searching for causes of behavior; materialism; causality; and much more.

There was not enough time to discuss all the questions and so some of these issues will be discussed next week. If you have any questions and comments, feel free to post them here or join us next week!

Here are some relevant links to the Ayn Rand Lexicon on moral judgment, justice, free will, consciousness, the soul-body dichotomy, and causality.