I enjoyed Richard Layton's January discussion group report on Professor Jerome Elbert's book Are Souls Real. Richard asks if we agree with Professor Elbert's statement that "mechanisms within the brain determines our choices" and conflict with "some common ideas about free will". I say yes, in an absolute way, it most likely does conflict, but it doesn't really matter since one is never aware, and I doubt that any Old System creatures are either.

I find the relationship between the Old System (OS) and the New System (NS) that Elbert writes about more interesting than any philosophical or theological speculations about free will. My hope is that an improved understanding of our real humanness and real limitations may one day reveal secrets that can help people get along with each other.

--Grant Simons
HoU Chapter Member

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