No-Choice Theory: A Simplified Scientific Analysis of the Issues of Free Will and Determinism

For anyone interested in philosophy (maybe theology in particular, but not necessarily), I would recommend this book. Every chapter was written as it was in an effort to arrive at the conclusion held by the author.I would have rated 4.5 starts if the option existed because there are some (syntactic) errors that, for someone like me, were a bit annoying and occasionally jarring (but I doubt most people would have been as irritated about them because few people are as annoying about such things as I am).What I found particularly interesting was near the closing of the final chapter when the author says that accepting this deterministic reality is courageous. It’s interesting because it doesn’t make sense to me to assign courage to something that, according to the author’s own perspective, was never a choice. If a person was always going to accept determinism (and if they do accept it, then that acceptance was never a choice and could never have not happened), there doesn’t seem, to me, to be anything courageous about it or anything else. On the flip side, not accepting it (the category into which I fall) would be neutral as well. Nothing cowardly. It, according to the author , was never going to be accepted by me because the Universe determined that I would just not be someone who would accept it.All in all, this is a worthwhile read and is definitely enlightening in my pursuit of understanding the determinists’s perspective more clearly.

A quirky little book that covers the waterfront from the Big Bang through inorganic chemistry to organic chemistry to evolutionary biology. Not sure it convinced me of the truth of absolute determinism, but do need to take issue with the reviewer who criticized the copy-editing in the book. I found no spelling or grammatical errors. I wonder if the author's first language is not English. The syntax is occasionally awkward, but the meaning comes through. Norman Mailer's legacy remains intact, but this book was worth the time to read.

This book adopts a novel approach to analyze the important issue of free will. The lack of a solid and science-based strategy to dissect the problem of free will had been missing from the collection of so many different approaches taken by so many different investigators. Although an issue that requires science for its analysis, the problem of the existence, or lack thereof, of free will has been traditionally addressed through pure philosophy. This unfortunate void has now been nicely filled by the “No-Choice Theory” through a simple yet scientific approach. One of the attractive features of the book’s strategy is that, it not only employs natural sciences to analyze the free will, but the utilization of the used scientific principles is in a logically ordered manner. The theory builds on the well-supported occurrence of the big bang and takes the reader from “The Mother of All Beginnings” to the formation of atoms, molecules, living organisms, genetics, and all the way to how all that this world, and its habitats, do is based on structure, and therefore, are preset.Also, this is an excellent book from not only a philosophical standpoint, but also from an educational perspective, particularly for those who have never had a chance to study science.

Pretensions are like the Meat Flower of the Amazon rainforest, bright and showy. But they smell of rotting flesh when they bloom. Philosophical thought has room for more than the bloated over educated minds. In fact the wisest I have known were aged farmers or soldiers.I found this writing to be quite interesting. Years ago I learned choice theory as a behavior modification tool, so I chose this based on the title alone. Totally different subject matter, but I liked it none the less. I tend to lean nihilistic so the question of where my decisions originate makes no difference to me. By it was good to give the thinkparts a stretch! Keep going kid!

Subject: A Unique Way to Address the Free Will QuestionAs the understanding of human brain and related scientific discoveries have proliferated in the last two decades, many hundreds of books and articles have been written about the effect of these findings pertaining to free will. They generally attempt to analyze the findings, and then either make a case for presence or absence of free will in our daily lives. To my knowledge, No-Choice Theory is the only one which has adopted a stepwise scientific method to, not only address, but makes an excellent attempt at solving the mystery of free will.Utilizing the well-established findings of the modern natural sciences, the reader is guided through the interrelated aspects of our universe that collectively, yet unambiguously, point to a mechanism by which our physical world operates. However I would caution the interested reader that a thorough “comprehension” of almost every line of this book is necessary to “see” and grasp the take-home message. Otherwise, it’s an excellent read!

I HAD ALREADY READ THE PAPER BACK AND I WANTED TO REVIEW IT AGAIN.I ENJOYED LISTENING TO IT THIS TIME AS THE NARRATOR DID AN EXCELLENT JOB.