Freewill+and+Neuroscience

=[|Neuroscience and Free Will]= =[|Dennett on free will and determinism]= =[|Dennett on Consciousness and Free Will]= = [|Daniel C. Dennett on What Should Replace Religions] = =[|Game Theory pt1]= =[|Game Theory pt2]= =[|Game Theory pt3]= =[|Game Theory pt4]=

Lois: June 28, 2011 If you can control speed, there are plenty things we can control and avoid what's happening. Look at the DNA working. If you are meticulous and that fast, you can determine to change the DNA combination. That's what scientists are doing. It also depends on whether I am controlled by others or I am able to control my environment and life.

= [|Richard Dawkins & Daniel Dennett vs. Francis Collins & Benjamin Carson - Science and Faith] = Francis Collins: Science is one way of knowing and faith is also a way of knowing, Strong atheists also have blind faith Religion without science is blind, Science without religion is lame. Benjamin Carson: Having faith in God is to build a vertical relationship: God cannot be explained Daniel Dennett: Stumbling block to define the origin of emotion and thought, morality: read my book! Richard Dawkins: I care about evidence. If I were God... and I blame someone.... that someone will say, "Not enough evidence. Not enough evidence." Lois: For me, God is not any more an invisible and unknowable being, but advanced human beings in the universe, who planned life on earth. =[|Darwin 200 - Dawkins and Harries]= In 1860, Huxley and Wilberforce, "I'd rather descended from an ape than a bishop" Friendly stitch up between a Theist and a Atheist. Do you still have Creation Myth?? Harries: Bible is a literature and myth. Harries believes in evolution unlike religious congregation But how simplicity was there in the first place?? Scientific truth does not answer my curiosity on how morality began? A real serious question should be: why human is created?? The character of evolution is more worth to research than what the Driver of evolution is. Dawkins: Science is unveiling the myth, but is still working, therefore can't give complete answer Lois: moral and structural human both evolve slowly over time. = [|Richard Dawkins Speaking at Duke University, Oct 3, 2010] = =[|Dr. Francis Collins- Dance of DNA at JMU (Complete Presentation)]= "Art Imitates Life: The Dance of DNA, Decoding, & Doctoring" by Dr. Francis Collins, Director of National Institutes of Health and formerly Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute. Dr. Collins is also author of Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine (2010).

Just one of several performances featured in a yearlong celebration of the "Dance of Art & Science" at James Madison University. **DNA is an instruction book. A, C, G, and T (chemical basis)** **Our body has 200 trillion cells. 3.1billion of these letters, may stack high as Washington Monument.** **To read out these letters will take us 31 years.** Genome project completed mapping DNA sequences in 2003, started in 1993, 6 different countries and 20 labs. This is in public domain, given away without patenting the results. Humans have 20,000 genes Mice have 30,000 genes Mouse genome project started in 2002 Genome sequences prove evolution. What is the contribution of Genome project?

99.6% are the same for all between people... only about 800 gene sequences are different. In 2005, was finally able to identify bad gene snips which cause diseases.

In the future, it is possible to have Personalized medicine as the cost for DNA testing decreases and the influence of genetic information in health-care decisions will increase. Your own DNA sequence will become important in your health care in the next half decade. =[|The Language of God (Francis Collins)]= Learned joy of discovery from my parents: dad was and mom was Inspired by Biology (digital nature of information) and changed the direction from mathematics and physics to life science. Many people with fatal diseases had peace with God. These people had faith that he didn't have. It was unnerving. Something hit me: it was science against believers. I wondered why people have faith and so explored world religion. Faith is a rational choice and also revelation. In a way, it is just like science. Why mathematics fits well how universe works. This is the proof that universe is the planned and there is the beginning. 15 Constants in math equations explaining workings of universe are very particular and precise. Can't we think that they were set on purpose by someone. The creator must be a mathematician.

Moral Law: proves the presence of God.

By Louis Carroll: Meaning of the Universe

At 27, Francis Collins became a Christian.

Lois: I think his lecture is a baloney. I respect his work, but I disagree with his explanation, trying to prove God. Why? I rather to have fellowships and faith in Science. Faith in DNA work, technologies is great! Why Jesus Christ is the only one that I have to put my faith in??

=[|Debate: Does the Universe have a purpose]= = =