Associate Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, Data Science Michael Spezio has responded to an ongoing debate with theologians Ted Peters and Tom Oord on the topic of free will. Spezio, a computational cognitive neuroscientist and ordained teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church (USA), challenges the notion that humans have genuine freedom, instead arguing that scientific evidence upholds bounded or limited agential autonomy.听听
In the article, Spezio concludes with the acknowledgment that he 鈥渞emains open to inquiry鈥� and that Peters plans to respond.听听
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