Ep. 49 Free Will: Does it exist?

Dré, Lauren, and Aidan ask, What’s free will? Does it exist? And more. Website & Newsletter | https://commonscientists.com Support Us | https://patreon.com/commonscientists REFERENCES Unconscious brain activity shapes our decisions | https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/unconscious-brain-activity-shapes-our-decisions William James | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James Compatibilism | https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compatibilism/ Paul in the Biblefree will and the devil, struggling to do what intended passage Predestination Calvinism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvinism The Value of Believing in Free Will: Encouraging a Belief in Determinism Increases Cheating | https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1467-9280.2008.02045.x Daniel Dennett on Consciousness and Free Will | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-Nj_rEqkyQ Just-world hypothesis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis How to play mafia | https://www.instructables.com/How-To-Play-Mafia-with-And-Without-Cards/ Complex system | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_system Emergence | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence Building the periodic table | Dmitri Mendeleev | https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/big-history-project/stars-and-elements/knowing-stars-elements/a/dmitri-mendeleev The Music of Life | Denis Noble | http://www.musicoflife.website/ Brain tumour causes uncontrollable paedophilia | https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2943-brain-tumour-causes-uncontrollable-paedophilia/ Arthur Shopenhauer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer Sam Harris | https://www.samharris.org/ Central Limit Theorem (video) | https://www.khanacademy.org/math/ap-statistics/sampling-distribution-ap/what-is-sampling-distribution/v/central-limit-theorem PODCAST INFO Podcast Website | https://commonscientists.com/common-science/ Apple Podcasts | https://apple.co/2KDjQCK Spotify | https://spoti.fi/3pTK821 FOLLOW US Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/commonscientists/ Twitter | https://twitter.com/commscientists TAGS #Storytelling #Science #Society #Culture #Learning