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Fireside Chat #5: Fitness myths, music, determinism, and the infamous 'Florida Man'

The Stronger By Science Podcast

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Does Free Will Exist or Not?

i had some ethical quandaries about whether i wanted to discuss this on the podcast in general. The only philosophy that i do actually have formal training in that i took, like, actual classes for as moral philosophy. I don't profess myself to be an expert by any means, but like i i get the foundations of that better. People who think free will is an illusion behave, at least on average, statistically speaking, less ethically. So i guess that doesn't actually speak to whether people like the idea of free will or not; it at least says something about how people behaved when they no longer believe in it.

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