Are you really free?
Short & Curly
abcpodcasts@abc.net.au
4.6 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
This season we look at one of the curliest questions of them all, are you really free? We say all the time that someone made good choices or bad choices. Or that they should be punished or rewarded for the choices they make. But did you really choose to like a certain style of fashion? Is it your fault if you're a messy person? Can society be blamed for people turning to crime? And do Molly and Carl have any control over their emotions? (Umm, that's a big NO). Join us as we try and find out if we have free will or not.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an ABC podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | Hey there, Molly here. |
| 0:08.0 | And me, Carl. |
| 0:09.0 | This season on Short and Curly, we're taking on one of the curliest questions of them all. |
| 0:15.0 | And so we actually want to give you a bit of a heads up to let you know what this season is all about. |
| 0:20.0 | So when you listen to each show, you can kind of see how they're all connected to one big question and our big question is |
| 0:30.1 | Are we free? Are you free? |
| 0:34.0 | Is anyone free? |
| 0:35.0 | Am I free? |
| 0:37.0 | Have a think for a minute about the world around you and your own life. |
| 0:43.0 | We're always talking about the choices that people make, |
| 0:46.0 | like did they make good choices or bad choices. |
| 0:49.0 | Should we be rewarded or punished for the choices that we make. But the big question is, how much choice do we actually have? |
| 0:58.0 | Basically we want to know who is in control of our actions. Like was I making a choice the other day when I lost my temper and threw my basketball so hard that it bounced right out of the park and onto the road? |
| 1:12.0 | Sorry. Or how about this? Do I choose whether to hate |
| 1:18.2 | certain vegetables and pull them out of my healthy lunchbox and throw them into the bushes. |
| 1:23.4 | Yeah, I'm looking at you, Capsicum, away with you. |
| 1:27.3 | And what about you? Do you even really choose to listen to this podcast. If you think that everything you do is a choice |
| 1:37.0 | made by you, then you probably believe in something called free will. |
| 1:43.4 | But even if it feels like you chose to do those things, |
| 1:47.2 | did you really? |
| 1:48.6 | Yeah, let's think about the natural world. |
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