Mar 21, 2024
Given what we know of physics and neuroscience, can there be
free will? Kevin Mitchell, a neuroscientist himself,
joins Vasant Dhar in episode 80
of Brave New World to unpack his argument for the existence of free
will.
Useful resources
1. Kevin Mitchell on Amazon, Twitter, Trinity
College, Google
Scholar, his
blog and his
homepage.
2. Free
Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will -- Kevin
Mitchell.
3. Innate:
How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are --
Kevin Mitchell.
4. Freedom
Evolves -- Daniel Dennett.
5. Determined:
A Science of Life without Free Will -- Robert
Sapolsky.
6. Free
Will -- Sam Harris.
7. Daniel
Kahneman on How Noise Hampers Judgement -- Episode 21 of
Brave New World.
8. Noise:
A Flaw in Human Judgment -- Daniel Kahneman, Olivier
Sibony and Cass Sunstein.
9. Synthetic
Biology -- J Craig Ventor Institute.
10. David
Krakauer.
11. David
Krakauer on Complexity, Agency, and Information -- Episode
242 of Sean Carroll's Mindscape.
12. Anthony
Zador on How our Brains Work — Episode 35 of Brave New
World.
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