Wilder Penfield’s conversion from ardent “strident materialist” to “passionate dualist” was a result of the scientific brain research he performed in his work as a neurosurgeon. Michael Egnor explains it all here. Egnor further notes that there is an even more compelling case for dualism based on a philosophical and logic arguments that dovetail nicely with the scientific ones. The article is well worth the read. He makes this statement at the end of the article.
The denial of free will is an ideological bias, not a credible scientific or philosophical conclusion.
I am anywhere from four to ten years from retirement. I really do not like the idea of retirement. I do neither fish nor golf although I do not mind doing either, but on a once or twice a year basis, not every day. I would like to take up guitar and/or saxophone. I have a saxophone and Christian says I can use his old acoustic guitar–he moved on to classical guitar a long time ago. The problem with that is two-fold–I will always be really bad at it for everyone else but me and it still does not get me out of the house and fill my days with anything meaningful. So I have trying to figure out what to do.