Biology and Philosophy: A conversation with Robert Sapolsky on his new book “Determined: Life Without Free Will” now available at your local book store. #Sapolsky #Determined #Freewill

Thanks to University of Macau CTLE for letting us use their recording studio!

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Time stamp:
0:00 Coming up..
0:53 Intro
2:21 Determined: The Main Song and Dance
6:36 Turtles All the Way Down
10:09 Emergent Complexity
12:45 Unpredictability
15:06 Change
19:18 Determined vs Contingent
23:15 Mutiplicity and Trees of Turtles (cause vs condition)
26:24 Autopoiesis and Emergent Complexity
28:53 It's not just biological
35:40 Psychological
39:26 Nexus, free will and its Western root
43:14 Changing people's minds with ideas
46:13 No Captain and No Self
48:56 An uphill battle against free will (Western tradition)
50:50 Sovereign Individual and English

Outro Music:
Carsick Cars You Can Listen You Can Talk:
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Dr HansGeorg Moeller is a professor in the Philosophy and Religious Studies Program at the University of Macau. He wrote the book: "The Moral Fool: A Case for Amorality", which focuses on morality and amorality.