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🗓️ 6 March 2024
⏱️ 130 minutes
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In this episode, Matt and Chris converse with Kevin Mitchell, an Associate Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin, and author of 'Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will'.
We regret to inform you that the discussion does involve in-depth discussions of philosophy-adjacent topics such as free will, determinism, consciousness, the nature of self, and agency.
But do not let that put you off!
Kevin is a scientist and approaches them all through a sensible scientific perspective. You do not have to agree but you do have to pay attention!
If you ever wanted to see Matt geek out and Chris remain chill and be fully vindicated, this is the episode for you.
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0:00.0 | The Oh, Hello and |
0:25.0 | welcome to Dakota the Guru's the podcast where anthropologist and a psychologist listen to the greatest minds the world has to offer |
0:31.0 | and we try to understand what they're talking about. |
0:33.4 | I'm Matt Brown, my co-host is Chris Kavanaugh. |
0:36.4 | How you doing today, Chris? You're ready for the interview we have scheduled? |
0:40.9 | Yeah, I'm all geared up. I made the decision freely. I activated my |
0:46.6 | agentic processes and the molecules in the universe helped push me along that path but I was the biological entity that offered that decision. |
0:58.0 | But in another sense, aren't we all just protons and electrons and whatnot |
1:03.0 | by breeding to the cosmic energy. |
1:05.5 | So who can say Mark? |
1:07.1 | Well, like a single-celled organism waving its little flagella |
1:12.2 | drawn towards the light, your arc draws you inevitably towards interviews |
1:18.3 | and podcasts. |
1:19.3 | Correct. |
1:20.3 | I'm irreducibly complex. |
1:22.3 | I've often said that about to you. reducibly complex. But that's... |
1:23.0 | I've often said that about to you. |
1:25.0 | Yeah, you can't hit me apart. |
1:27.0 | There's nothing there. |
1:30.0 | You take me apart and you're like, God must have made this. |
1:32.0 | It's just so freaking assigned in. That's what many people have said. |
1:37.0 | Well this is the thing that podcasts say but we really do have a great interview coming up. |
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