Do We Have Free Will? with Robert Sapolsky

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🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Is there a quantum reason we could have free will? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explore the concept of free will and predetermination with neuroscientist, biologist, and author of Determined: The Science of Life Without Free Will, Robert Sapolsky.

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0:00.0	Coming up on Star Talk all about free will.
0:04.0	Where do we get it from? Does it really exist?
0:07.0	Maybe it doesn't.
0:08.0	We're featuring my exclusive interview with Robert Sapolsky,
0:12.0	Professor of Neuroscience at Stanford,
0:15.0	an author of the recent book,
0:16.4	Determine A Science of Life Without Free Will.
0:21.7	Scary, but likely true.
0:24.0	Check it out.
0:25.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:30.0	Your place in the universe
0:32.0	where science and pop culture collide.
0:35.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:39.0	This is Star star talk.
0:43.0	Neil degrass Tyson here, you're a personal astrophysicist and I got Chuck Nice with me. Chuck, how you doing man?
0:48.0	I'm doing great, Neil, thanks for asking.
0:50.0	Okay, Chuck, nice, a professional stand-up comedian, an actor.
0:56.0	Yes.
0:57.0	So here's a subject we haven't yet tackled.
1:01.0	Okay.
1:02.0	It's the subject of free will. Yes, it came up in the edges. Yeah, I was going to say we've we've tinkered around the edges.
1:10.0	It's just the edge. A couple of conversations with Brian Green, a couple conversations with Heather Berlin, a couple
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