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134 | Robert Sapolsky on Why We Behave the Way We Do
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Are You a Free Will Skeptic?
I don't believe there's a shred of agency that goes into any of our behavior. 500 years ago in virtually every European country, if you had an epileptic seizure, the best doctors around had a diagnosis for you as to what caused it. And they had an absolutely clear neurological intervention, which was to burn you at the stake. Somewhere along the way, people learned, oh, no, it's actually a disease. They stopped putting people with epilepsy in psychiatric hospitals. People started developing laws that distinguished between who a person is and what a seizure might do to them. I'm not sure why constant exposure to these kinds of ideas would erode someone's belief in free will.
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