15 - Robert Sapolsky: Why Society Would Be Fairer If We Stopped Believing in Free Will
Stanford Psychology Podcast
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Is There Free Will?
When you look at most of the people sort of mug wrestling over compatibilism versus incompatibilism, there's a stance that actually makes me kind of crazy. Can we find out that there are neurons in your brain that have already committed to an action before you're consciously aware of it? Up to 10 seconds before, is that fully predictable? Not at all. It's got everything to do with the bazillion things that occurred that made those neurons of what they are at that moment. So where does intent come from? It comes from stuff a second before and a minute before and an hour and a decade in a lifetime in centuries and decades.
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