Does free will exist? - Episode 21

In this episode of Podverse: This week I start off with a bit of an explanation about the change up of scheduling. Then we dive into how times are now and what has changed, we look at what in my mind seems to be a cluster of disaster with shot of GTFO shoved in for good measure. ...  Show more

In this episode of Podverse: This week is a response to an email request. So we start off with a bit of clarification. We then dig into my beliefs about masks. If masks should be worn and where, I rehash some of the arguments about masks. We look at whose rights are being infring ...  Show more

Sam Harris presents his full argument on the illusoriness of free will—and explores its ethical and psychological implications. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at samharris.org/subscribe. 

Sam Harris speaks with Robert Sapolsky about the widespread belief in free will. They discuss the limits of intuition, the views of Dan Dennett, complexity and emergence, downward causation, abstraction, epigenetics, predictability, fatalism, Benjamin Libet, the primacy of luc ...

On this episode of the podcast, we continue our discussion of Gottfried Leibniz. First, we delve more into the feud between Leibniz and Isaac Newton, which we briefly mentioned last week. Next, we ask ourselves why God sometimes allows Steve Buschemi to murder innocent hitchhiker ...  Show more

Sam Harris answers questions from listeners about free will, meditation, Noam Chomsky, the illusion of the self, Clinton vs. Sanders, the de-platforming of Richard Dawkins, wealth inequality, and other topics. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBS ...  Show more