Sam Harris: Free will is an illusion, rather than a reality. He says that even if nothing precedes your choice, except your choice, there's no neurochemistry we need to talk about prior to that. No matter how you massage the physics, whether it's pure determinism or determinism plus some randomness, neither of those dials gives you free will," he said.
Neil deGrasse Tyson investigates free will, morality, meditation, psychedelic experiences, artificial intelligence, and more alongside neuroscientist and author Sam Harris, comic co-host Godfrey, neurotheologist Andrew Newberg, and neuroscientist Robert Wright. You have no choice but to listen.
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