This is not a regular episode - and if you have listened to episode 44 you do NOT need to listen to this because it is simply excerpts from that episode. It is simply an extraction from that episode of the material - solely my remarks rather than any reading - about the concept of "free will". The following is the Youtube description of this episode:
This is an excerpt from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oypz57aosnE but is focussed on my remarks about "free will". This is my best attempt at a response to Sam Harris or "CosmicSkeptic's" video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqj32jxOC0Y It seems to me almost every public intellectual, more or less (Daniel Dennett aside) is allergic to the notion of "free will" because they guess it must be linked to some supernatural notion or must defy physics or is in some other sense irrational. I try to explain the scientific notion of the little we know and advance the case that a denial of free will simply moves the same mystery - the same problem - elsewhere.
Ep 148: Memetics
Ep 147: Memes
Ep 146: Mindless
Ep 145: Minds
Ep 144: Monarchy
Ep 143: Metaphysics
Ep 142: Multiverses
Ep 141: The Mathematicians’ Misconception
Ep 140: Mathematics
Ep 139: Misconceptions
Ep 138: Things that make you go mmmmm? Part 5: Minds II - Part the Second
Ep 137: Things that make you go mmmmm? Part 4: Minds - Part the First
Ep 136: Things that make you go mmmmm? Part 3: Multiverses
Ep 135: Lookouts
Ep 134: Things that make you go mmmmm? Part 2: Mathematics
Ep 133: Things that make you go mmmmmm? Part 1: Many Misconceptions
Ep 132: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 7 ”A Conversation about Justification”. Part 2
Ep 131:Corroboration? Excerpts and Analysis of Popper’s ”Realism & The Aim of Science”.
Ep 130: Steven Pinker’s ”Rationality” Ch 6 ”Risk and Reward” (Rational Choice & Expected Utility). Analysis.
Ep 129: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 7 ”A Conversation about Justification”.
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