Robert Sapolsky on Free Will and Determinism
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Meet Jared Diamond and Michael Shermer: https://skeptic.com/event
Robert Sapolsky is the author of A Primate\\u2019s Memoir, The Trouble with Testosterone, and Why Zebras Don\\u2019t Get Ulcers. His most recent book, Behave, was a New York Times bestseller and named a best book of the year by the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. He is a professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation \\u201cGenius Grant.\\u201d His new book is Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will.
Shermer and Sapolsky discuss: free will, determinism, compatibilism, libertarian free will \\u2022 Christian List\\u2019s 3 related capacities for free will \\u2022 how what people believe about free will and determinism influences their behaviors \\u2022 the three horsemen of determinism: (1) reductionism (2) predetermination; (3) epiphenomenalism \\u2022 dualism \\u2022 punishment \\u2022 retributive vs. restorative justice \\u2022Is the self an illusion? \\u2022\\xa0game theory evolution of punishment \\u2022 luck \\u2022 and meaning (or lack thereof).
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