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

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 free will, implications for ethics and criminal
justice, the psychological satisfaction of punishing bad people,
understanding evil, punishment and reward as tools, meritocracy,
the consequences of physical beauty, the logic of reasoning, and
other topics.


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