15 - Robert Sapolsky: Why Society Would Be Fairer If We Stopped Believing in Free Will
Stanford Psychology Podcast
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The Neuroscience of Free Will
neuroscience is just a wrong level of analysis for free work maybe it does needs this biologically but if we experience it these concepts matter to us in those not physical entities. We have an incredibly strong pull towards feeling that sort of thing and there's wonderful studies a whole literature showing you can manipulate people's sense of agency over things quite readily That's half of social psychology I mean ask somebody what their favorite detergent is and if you've subliminally cue them with the word ocean in the previous couple of minutes there are more likely the chance to say tied tied is my favorite detergent go tell me there's free will after that one or any of the bill. 25% of the men on death
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