The concept of free will has long been accepted in society as the controlling force behind human behavior, and it is regarded as a fundamental truth within the Christian faith and other religious dogmas. But what if free will is a myth? When biophysicist Bruce Lehnert started to question the notion along with the legitimacy of his prior faith-based religious teachings, he discovered the scientific reality he sought.
In The Irresponsible Human, Lehnert turns the assumption of free will on its head. He does so by providing scientific evidence in support of the book's deterministically premised Central Thesis. That is, humans have no conscious or unconscious control over their thoughts, intentions, and physical actions. Lehnert adheres to the deterministic laws of cause and effect, which he summarily calls the "Law of Must", without deviation in his analyses. The results lay bare the fallacy that humans possess the capability to consciously regulate their mental and physical behaviors. Instead, all evidence indicates we are controlled by our unconscious minds over which we also lack regulatory dominion.
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Accordingly, humans are not responsible for their mental and physical behaviors, thereby providing us all with an excuse as need be for all prior errant judgements and actions. Further, the validity of the Central Thesis puts an end to free will as a fundamental foundation upon which Christianity and other religious dogmas are based. Instead, our hope resides in our choice selections, which both prescribe and are our individual destinies.
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Dr. Bruce E. Lehnert, Sr. is a retired experimental and theoretical biophysicist. He has authored over one hundred scientific reports in the peer-reviewed scientific literature along with numerous other publications. He has served on the editorial boards of several scientific journals, and he frequently has been invited to speak at numerous national and international scientific meetings. He holds a MS in biology from the University of Detroit and a second MS and PhD from the University of Rochester in New York. He worked as a research scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, where he led the Cell and Molecular Biology Group. He later instructed college/university human anatomy and physiology with emphasis on the nervous system for over a decade in "the Land of Enchantment" (New Mexico). He took it as an opportunity to delve into what state-of-the-art neurosciences have revealed about the concept of free will. The Irresponsible Human with its call for rationalism is his keystone.
