183. Does Free Will Exist, and Does It Matter...

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From group chats to video calls, technology should make social connection easier than ever. So, why is everyone so lonely? In this episode, Sabrina sets out to investigate the "loneliness epidemic" that is sweeping the globe and impacting her friends and cohosts. She interviews P ...  Show more

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 ...

Sean Illing speaks with Robert Sapolsky, a professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University and the author of a new book called Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will. They discuss the concept of free will, whether it actually exists in the way we think it does, ...  Show more

Episode 21 - Does free will exist?In this episode of Podverse:We question if one of our most fundamental beliefs really exists and what makes it so? I dig into my belief and explain what I think, and where it has sprouted from. I give you some more food for thought from someone I ...  Show more