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Episode 18: Free Will


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Does free will exist? How do you even define it? We take on this long-debated topic as it relates to volition, perfect vs. imperfect worlds, determinism vs. indeterminism, musical improvisation, moral responsibility, consciousness, and more.

 

References:

 

Free Will - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/

 

Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-manyworlds/

 

A Brief History Of Time by Stephen Hawking - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Brief_History_of_Time

 

Perpetual Motion Machine - https://www.britannica.com/science/perpetual-motion

 

Heat Death of The Universe - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe

 

Counterfactuals - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/counterfactuals/

 

Libet experiment - https://www.informationphilosopher.com/freedom/libet_experiments.html

 

Gut feeling - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gut-second-brain/

 

The Lick - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krDxhnaKD7Q

                  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lick

 

Intro, bumper, and outro music - lattice for climbing, composed and performed by Trevor Villwock (trumpet and electronics)

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