Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeft Radio. We have a fun episode today. It

you know veers more into the philosophical than the political. But I have on Zach

Weiner Smith and Corey Molar from Saturday Morning Breakfast cereal comics and

existential comics respectively. Corey from existential comics has been on the

show a couple of times. So a long time RevLeft listeners are probably familiar

with him. Anybody in the philosophy community more broadly have probably come

across both of the comics you know represented here and they're both really

great if you haven't definitely go check them out. But yeah we have it we have

both these these folks on to talk about free will. Corey reached out to me you

know he's like you know this would be fun to do. I agree this is something you

know I always like covering topics that you wouldn't necessarily think that

you know primarily left-wing political philosophy podcast would cover and it's

always fun to have Corey on to shoot the shit in general and he wanted to sort

of articulate and defend a position within this debate called compatibleism

and so we sort of go through it. It can get sort of advanced at times as a lot

of these philosophical discussions can but I do try to you know set the basic

terms and definitions and lay things on the table up front to help people who

are not used to this field of inquiry to sort of orient themselves to the

overall debate but even if some of the stuff goes above your head other stuff

will get your attention and make you think and overall it's a really fun

episode. In this episode we do mention philosophical zombies and I'm pretty sure

Corey defines it but I can't quite remember if we just sort of briefs to pass

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