I Swear I Didn't Have Free Will! (Airdate 10/30/2023)
The Oddcast Podcast
Now! Media | Bob & Sheri
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Today's Oddcast - I Swear I Didn't Have Free Will! (Airdate 10/30/2023)
A neurobiologist claims that humans can't really control themselves because they have no free will. While that might be a wild theory, we've all been there when we look back at certain things we've done and wonder, "What was I thinking?!?"
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| 0:00.0 | After a lifetime of study, a man who is a certifiable genius has come to a conclusion. |
| 0:07.7 | We do not, as human beings, have free will. |
| 0:11.6 | We always have an odd one in the crowd, so it's kind of odd. |
| 0:14.3 | I decidedly odd. |
| 0:15.2 | Isn't that strike you as a little bit odd? |
| 0:16.7 | No, it doesn't strike me as a little bit odd. |
| 0:18.5 | It's the Bob and Sherry hotcast with stuff we wouldn't, couldn't, or shouldn't do on the regular show. |
| 0:24.1 | Now, here's the odd cast. |
| 0:27.1 | So I just read this the other day in the Los Angeles Times. |
| 0:30.8 | Stanford University neurobiologist Roberts Polsky says he has studied human beings and other primates for his entire career and has reached the conclusion that virtually all human behavior is as far beyond our conscious control as the convulsions of a seizure, the division of cells, or the beating of our hearts. |
| 0:56.7 | This means accepting that a man who shoots into a crowd has no more control over his fate than the |
| 1:03.4 | victims who happen to be in the wrong place in the wrong time. It says treating drunk drivers |
| 1:08.9 | who barrel into pedestrians, we should treat them like people |
| 1:14.2 | who suffer from a sudden heart attack and veer out of their lane. |
| 1:17.7 | So I'm reading this and reading this. |
| 1:20.3 | And he's going on saying, why are we punishing people who have no control over what they do? |
| 1:27.3 | And I started looking in this article for somebody |
| 1:31.8 | to argue with this guy because this is just, I'm no certified, certified genius by any stretch |
| 1:38.9 | of the imagination, as anybody who's ever listened to me on this radio broadcast, but it just doesn't make any sense. |
| 1:46.4 | Well, first off, first off, I think he's full of crap, but I would like to go with that to explain some other things. |
| 1:55.0 | I mean, you know what I'm saying? |
| 1:55.5 | I think I think overall I'm not going for it. |
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