Episode 27: You, Your Self, and Your Brain (With Eddy Nahmias)
Very Bad Wizards
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The Importance of Free Will
I want to get more attention focused on the issues that I think are really relevant. Those have to do with how we understand the mind-body relationship, how we understand mental causation and what psychology tells us about the causes of our action. That's why I'm interested in neuroethics and neuro law. We're only going to get people to care... Well, I mean, so to shift attention to that problem, I think requires showing two things. One, that determinism is irrelevant. Two, that neuroscience can't be used as a basis for free will.
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