Massimo, this is a little off topic, but I'm wondering if you have come across a new book called "Free Agents: How evolution gave us free will" by Kevin J. Mitchell. He's a genetic neurologist and evolutionary biologist. I found the book extremely informative, mind-expanding, exhilarating. I think you'd like it too. Much of what he says resonates so much with ideas you've discussed in your conversations with Dan Kaufman and others. Surprisingly, he rejects compatibilism, but instead argues for a view that future outcomes are not completely predetermined, while still holding to an entirely materialist view of the universe. Toward the end he talks about a process philosophy of biology which I've heard you mention as well. Apologies if you've already talked about this book; I may have missed it.
Massimo, this is a little off topic, but I'm wondering if you have come across a new book called "Free Agents: How evolution gave us free will" by Kevin J. Mitchell. He's a genetic neurologist and evolutionary biologist. I found the book extremely informative, mind-expanding, exhilarating. I think you'd like it too. Much of what he says resonates so much with ideas you've discussed in your conversations with Dan Kaufman and others. Surprisingly, he rejects compatibilism, but instead argues for a view that future outcomes are not completely predetermined, while still holding to an entirely materialist view of the universe. Toward the end he talks about a process philosophy of biology which I've heard you mention as well. Apologies if you've already talked about this book; I may have missed it.
Ah, creationism, physical materialism, astrology, divination, black magic…. haven’t quite taken their last breath. But there is hope:
“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather its opponents eventually die…
Thus science moves forward, funeral by funeral.” (Max Planck)