Could Free Will and Consciousness be a Defeater for Atheism and Physicalism

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“Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny.”
― Lao Tzu

By Zia H Shah

I believe free will research by psychiatrists and neurologist has enough data to present as a defeater for physicalism that only reality is physical, matter and energy as the physicist know it.

More broadly the study of consciousness will also join forces with free will to the same goal that metaphysical materialism or physicalism is wrong.

With these ideas I want to collect relevant article and videos here and over time will find tune the presentation.

The philosopher that he is referring to Alfred North Whitehead and one of his books is available in audio form in Youtube:

In the above video Denis Noble also lays foundation for guided evolution also.

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How a Single True Revelation Defeats Materialism or Physicalism

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