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272. Stuart Vyse — The Uses of Delusion: Why It’s Not Always Rational to Be Rational

The Michael Shermer Show

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Is Free Will Legitimate?

Is it legitimate to say, feel like i have free will, and it's a useful fiction? It works for me, and that's a legitimate position. Most of them are arguing from the idea that if there weren't free will, we'd be in trouble. So i think it's very useful as social animals. The other arguments just don't make sense to me. And but i do, i do fall very firmly in the hard deter ness camp.

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