Making Sense with Sam Harris — #360 — We Really Don't Have Free Will?

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#360 — We Really Don't Have Free Will?

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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 luck, historical change in attitudes about…

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