Do we have free will? What if all our decisions are foregone conclusions?
50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD
Jim McDonald
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
When a Stanford neurobiologist states that free will largely doesn’t exist, and he’s joined in this thought by other neurobiologists as well as a bunch of mathematicians, we have to take a moment to think about the whole idea. But was that really a choice? A decision? Or have our particular backgrounds destined us to take that pause?
In the world of fitness, are any of the choices we make about training, diet, etc., actually based on evaluating all the available options or are they just what we were always going to do?
This is maybe the trippy-est and potentially divisive episode of the show ever – though we as host are pretty much in agreement. Many of you may not feel the same way.
Listener resources: National Institutes of Health paper on Free Will LA Times article on the Stanford neurobiologist who says free will doesn't exist
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| 0:00.0 | I just got a THC legally highest THC seltzer from New Jersey wanting to work together. |
| 0:23.8 | Oh, that's not the type of content. |
| 0:27.8 | I typically dive into, however, to shotgun a couple of these on a podcast, but things might |
| 0:36.0 | get a little weird. |
| 0:37.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:38.0 | I don't know, man. |
| 0:39.0 | I could be down for that. |
| 0:40.0 | I seem so scary. |
| 0:41.0 | Actually, I could not think I would shotgun them, and it would be hard on a podcast. |
| 0:46.6 | I don't know. |
| 0:47.6 | My THC experience in my life is, this is revelatory, like in high school and college, |
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| 1:04.8 | So what they say. |
| 1:05.8 | I mean, it really, I mean, California more so, I think, than some places. |
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| 1:14.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:15.4 | The ditch weed here was probably higher than the ditch weed, some other place, but it |
| 1:20.8 | was more of a hashish kind of situation. |
| 1:24.2 | Yeah. |
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| 1:31.7 | you could break off a little bit and, you know, you would not need a whole lot and whatever. |
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