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#419 Christian List: Why Free Will Is Real

The Dissenter

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Why Do People Vote the Way They Do?

If we go down to the level of reality that physics deals with like for example atoms of atomic particles wouldn't it ever be possible for us to describe or understand behavior at though at that level of description? We'd have an unbelievably complex story of physical micro details but the trouble is that you'd not really be able to pick up the explanatory salient patterns and regularities that we are normally interested in when we're trying to understand human behavior. Political scientists will want to explain and understand those voting behaviors, he says. "That's actually an important research question in political psychology why do people vote the way they do"

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