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Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman

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Exploring the Concept of Free Will

In this chapter, the speaker discusses the concept of free will and whether its absence would be depressing. They explain that while experiments challenge our intuitions about free will, it is difficult to definitively determine its existence. With the analogy of a tank filled with ping pong balls, they highlight the complexity of the brain and how unpredictability arises despite operating on physical rules.

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