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I'm joined with Matthew Higley.

We are going to do part two of the free will versus determinism in the last episode.

We talked about some of the historical context.

We talked about some of the sort of different people who are speaking about this.

We talked about the studies that have been done on free will.

We talked about the famous clock study in which they had this EEG and later brain electrodes

from some seizure patients hooked up to the motor cortex and the motor cortex started

to light up before the person became consciously aware of the desire to make a choice, a basic

choice to raise their hand or something like that.

And so the experiment has been touted by some determinists as like, look, this is proof,

everything occurs in the brain before we become consciously aware of it.

And our arguments against that were, first of all, this is a very simplistic action

of raising your hand or whatnot.

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