“New Age” Existentialism: Understanding the Modern Turbulence of the new challenges to the Idea  of the ‘Individual’ as framed within Power,Death, and Freedom as the basis of ‘Free Will’ and their ties to the newly bolstered fields of Neuroscience, Astrophysics, and Philosophy

Undergraduate Honors Thesis

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Citeable URL: https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/undergraduate_honors_theses/ws859g658

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to look into how the fields of astrophysics, neuroscience, and philosophy come together in exciting ways when thinking about existential quandaries in the modern day. In this project, both the concept of the individual and the concept of free will are broken down into three parts and then explored through one of the aforementioned fields. The individual is to be taken as an external, internal, being with an intermediary capacity. The concept of free will is based upon the individual’s interactions with power, death, and freedom. What the paper ultimately hopes to make clear is how the individual perceives their ability to act in the universe and in themselves is an interaction with their sense of free will; and how this sense of free will and the sense of the individual has had interesting shifts in recent history brought on by new scientific discoveries and the questions about ourselves they raise.

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