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🗓️ 17 October 2023
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Meet Jared Diamond and Michael Shermer: https://skeptic.com/event
Robert Sapolsky is the author of A Primate’s Memoir, The Trouble with Testosterone, and Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers. His most recent book, Behave, was a New York Times bestseller and named a best book of the year by the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. He is a professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant.” His new book is Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will.
Shermer and Sapolsky discuss: free will, determinism, compatibilism, libertarian free will • Christian List’s 3 related capacities for free will • how what people believe about free will and determinism influences their behaviors • the three horsemen of determinism: (1) reductionism (2) predetermination; (3) epiphenomenalism • dualism • punishment • retributive vs. restorative justice •Is the self an illusion? • game theory evolution of punishment • luck • and meaning (or lack thereof).
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0:00.0 | You're listening to the Michael Sherman Show. The Michael Sherber Show everyone. Hello everyone it's Michael Schurmer. This is my friendly reminder to sign up |
0:28.9 | for our December 1st through 3rd weekend conference here an event at the Skeptic Society, |
0:34.2 | open house Friday night here at the offices as well as Sunday afternoon for those if |
0:37.9 | you can't make it Friday night. Saturday night fundraising dinner for the Skeptic |
0:42.0 | Society if you support us it would be |
0:43.5 | great to see you there but most interestingly we're doing a couple of |
0:47.4 | podcast live recorded episodes I'll be in conversation with not only Jared Diamond Sunday morning but Michael |
0:54.2 | Shelenberger on Saturday. Now he's an interesting figure very controversial. I've |
0:59.8 | already gotten some mail from people saying how could you have this guy because he's one of the |
1:03.8 | most interesting people working out there today he's worked in environmentalism on |
1:08.0 | nuclear power on homelessness he lives in San Francisco area, so he knows that well. Drug addiction, what we can do about it. |
1:17.0 | And especially journalism, independent journalism, |
1:23.0 | alternative media, you know, what we could, what we should trust as truth, which is the theme of the conference in journalism. |
1:32.0 | When you read something, should you believe it or not this is what |
1:35.6 | Michael has been not only studying but also working in so we'll be having a nice long |
1:40.5 | podcast conversation on Saturday which is recorded live in the at the hotel at |
1:46.0 | the Hilton Santa Barbara Hilton there in which you will participate that is to |
1:50.5 | say he and I will talk for a little while and then when it it's time will go to you and you can ask questions you can even dialogue with him. |
1:58.8 | I mean it's going to be one of those kind of interesting podcast episodes which will then post on my show afterwards. |
2:06.1 | All right so check it out go to skeptic.com and just click on the banner for the conference |
2:10.2 | and I hope to see you there. |
2:12.2 | Thanks for your support. |
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