This is a headgum podcast. I don't know what to think I don't know what to say.

Yeah, that's all right.

That's okay.

I don't know anything. OK. on the show again. You know a couple weeks back we had a neuroscientist named

Dr Robert Sepulci on and he made a case grounded in neuroscience that there is

no such thing as free will. He argued that the sense you have that you're making a decision

that you decide what to eat, what clothes to put on, and who to make out with, that sense

that you have all the time every day is an illusion. For Robert, the you that you imagine driving the car of your life

is actually baby Maggie in the passenger seat next to you with a toy driving wheel.

He argued that physics, neurobiology, and your own history conspire to make you

powerless in your own life and given this powerlessness he went on to say that people

do not have moral responsibility for their actions.

Now, this is a take.

It goes against all of our instincts, our intuitions,

about how our own minds work, but it is not coming from nowhere.

Advances in neuroscience had given us an ever more refined sense of the mechanisms

that actually underlie all of our actions.

So if you want to make the argument that we're just chemical machines,

the last few decades of science have given you a lot of shiny parts to make that case with.

Well, this week on the show, we're doing something a little bit different because this week

we have an expert on to present an opposing take.

This week's guest is also a neuroscientist, but he argues that physics and biology do not negate free will,

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