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The Illusion of Free Will Kindle Edition

by I. M. Probulos (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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The goal of this book is to clear up the confusion between:
  1. Making a choice.
  2. Personal responsibility and consequences from our actions.
  3. Free will (as many think of it).
Last, once one accepts that Free Will is an illusion, one behaves as if it is not true! In other words, there is no change in your behavior. You don’t just sit on the couch and cry over your lack of free will. You do everything as if you are master of your own ship.
Accepting Free Will is an illusion changes how you perceive concepts such as original sin, legal responsibility, good and evil, and blame.
The book explores numerous approaches to the concept of free will and includes numerous scenarios and examples of deterministic behavior. The author lists positive determinist behaviors, and finally, there are numerous additional resources including books, debates, and internet articles.
The religious version of free will assumes that any choice is possible at any given time. We know that is not true because millions of Protestants don’t become Catholics overnight; millions of Muslims don’t convert to Christianity. Your “choices” are always predicated on genetic, environmental, and over a dozen other factors. All of these are probabilistic events: where you are born, who your parents are, whether you are “willfully disobedient” or compliant. The billion-dollar advertising industry knows your thoughts and decisions can be manipulated. Your Free Will is an illusion.
This book has been thoroughly researched and includes findings from psychology, genetics, neurobiology, quantum physics, and numerous other sources to back up the author’s deterministic view of the universe.
I hope you enjoy this Kindle book and if so, please review it and share it with your friends. You can help support my work by purchasing my other Kindle books.
You can contact me on my website is www.IMProbulos.com and follow me on Twitter @improbulos
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ I. M. Probulos (December 18, 2013)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 18, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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The author, a baby boomer, was raised Roman Catholic. His parents were not very religious. He considers himself to be "spiritually challenged" in that he does not have the "faith gene" but the "skeptic gene". He will call bullshit when he sees it. As he states in 101 Reasons for Non-Belief, one only has to read the first four pages of Genesis to realize that it was "all made up."

I. M Probulos realized in high school that there were other religions and it did not seem fair or loving to condemn approx. 68% of the world's population to hell. He never had a falling out from religion like many others. That is the topic of Damnation by Probability (DPB): 75 billion in hell and counting, his favorite topic. His first book was, "The 12 Unthinkable Horrors." From that beginning, I. M. Probulos now has over 30 books available on Amazon Kindle. Most are related to free thought, religion, non-belief, and his devotion to promoting reason, rationality, and science over superstition, faith without evidence, and religious dogma.

For a fun take, try any of his humor books: Adam and Eve Revisited, What if Lucifer said No?, and his personal favorite, Donald J. Trump: Anointed by God, Jesus Returns. They are short, to the point, and funny as hell.

Technically, I. M. Probulos is not an atheist, but a deist, based on Probulism where Probability, itself is the first cause, outside of time, energy and matter. It is a type of deity--but one that you do not worship, only respect.

I. M. Probulos has over 30 Amazon Kindle books related to free thought, atheism, agnosticism, secular humanism, and deism.

The concepts that I. M. Probulos would like everyone to learn and use are:

Damnation by probability (DBP)

The Statistical Theory of Everything (STOE)

The Other God's Earth (TOGE) A parallel universe without sin, evil, or death.

The Illusion of Free Will (hard determinist)

The 12 Unthinkable Horrors of Human Existence (12 Unthinkable Horrors or 12 UH)

The difference between faith, reasonable expectations, and hope.

The difference between free will, a choice, and personal responsibility.

I. M. Probulos is available for public speaking engagements. He can be reached at improbulos@gmail.com, Twitter or through the Contact Form on www.improbulos.com.

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Chastity White Rose
5.0 out of 5 stars Tons of useful info
Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2015
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This book of lists has tons of information from every area of knowledge. The author explains how it shows us that we are not in control the way some of us think we are.

I think that if education can be given without religious superstition, the majority of people will become determinists because they will understand that cause and effect is required for all science and philosophy.

I will recommend this book to atheists mostly because a Christian would just get angry and stop reading it as soon as they found out an atheist wrote it.

Since I am also atheist, I find this book very straight and to the point. Free will looks like nothing more than a religious teaching which is used to justify eternal torture in hell.

A loving god, if he existed, would not have allowed sickness and mental illnesses that cause us to do things we don't want to do.

And even when we are doing what we want to do, there are infinite causes in the past that led to us wanting to do it! That is the basic reason free will is impossible. Books like this one just help us to understand what some of those causes are.
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D. Cowie
3.0 out of 5 stars By the logic of this book you really don't have ...
Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2014
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By the logic of this book you really don't have a choice about whether or not you will buy this book and buying this book will not change your life in any way because free will is an illusion. So why bother buying this book or any other book by this author? I read it for you because I did not have the free will to do otherwise. In fact why would anyone even write this book since no one else has the free will to choose to buy it or not buy it except that the author was under the illusion that he had the free will to write it. It is an illusion that by writing this book and offering it to others to buy that anyone has even been given the choice as to whether they should buy it and read it.

Wait this doesn't make much sense, yet this is what this book is trying to tell you.

The author actual tells his readers that once you know you don't have free will you must act as if you do have free will but does not really tell us how one acts as if he has free will when he does not have free will.

Could slave owners have acted differently? No, so why don't we still have slaves? Oh that's right, we don't have free will to have not stopped slavery.

There are millions of stories in the world of people who lived in circumstances that led them to commit atrocious acts and yet in a moment their lives changed and they become good loving people who dedicated their lives to helping others. Three that come to mind are Johnny Cash, Dwayne (The Dog) Chapman and Nicky Cruz (Run Baby Run). This type of change defies the idea that we don't have free will as well as the idea that there is no entity that exists outside of ourselves that can transform lives. The only thing the author has proven is that this entity ultimately does not transform every persons life and it may be possible that those people are the ones who chose out of free will not to accept the source of transformation.

After originally giving this book a rating of one star I decided that this was not right and changed it to 3 stars. Although I still feel the author is completely wrong about free will being an illusion as I think many of his arguments are not well thought out, I also found myself looking up a lot of the material that is referenced in the book and found some of it to be very interesting. So I would recommend buying this book and also some of the other books he talks about, even though you really don't have a choice about it anyways.
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jean russell
5.0 out of 5 stars Good answers for seekers.
Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2014
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Professionally and clearly written. Provides a good understanding of the subject. Those seeking enlightenment on this subject will have it!
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Lewis Tagliaferre
3.0 out of 5 stars Seems like a lot of circular reasoning here..
Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2021
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Others have written good reviews so I will just add that this writer, who seems to have written many many books supporting his atheistic conclusions, seems to want it both ways. On one hand, he presents tons of evidence for the illusion of free will but then says people still are responsible for the results of their actions, which is upheld by social standards and punishment for illegal behavior. This seems like an oxymoron....people have no free will but they are responsible anyway. Perhaps we have no free will so we must believe in free will. The opposite belief in predestination, whether from GOD or natural selection, illustrates that GOD did not make any one-sided coins. As the writer relies mostly upon probability theory, perhaps we all must flip a coin and live as we must, including his talent for writing many books, and the purchases of his books by people who cannot help themselves. If this idea helps you live with remorse and regrets for past decisions, you are welcome....but hey, remorse and regrets also must be necessary in this world if free will is an illusion. Perhaps those who believe that Satan rules this world of sin and suffering until Jesus returns to redeem those who are chosen to accept him is a reasonable alternative. After all, they have no free will to believe otherwise, according to I.M.Probulos. So, whether you are atheist like this author, or something else, it all must be necessary or it would be different. Is that clear?
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Oakley White
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2014
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Lots to think about.
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Mike
3.0 out of 5 stars A good reinforcer for the converted.
Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2014
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A good review from the determinist viewpoint and provided a coherent summary of the scientific approach to the subject. Although not breaking into new ground and providing any "aha's" it certainly reinforced my thinking and helped clarify some aspects for me.
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