Oct 13, 2021
For this episode I (only begin) tackling the concept of Free Will and it's relationship to our liberal lives. I use the short book Free Will by Sam Harris as a springboard to discuss to my thoughts on this concept; and why I think it's been a little misunderstood in the culture since his book was published in 2012. (At least to the extent it's been in the culture at all haha). Some of the things I talk about are:
- Framing the concept of Free Will different than Harris
- Volition is the kind of free will we care about because it manifests itself in the social world
- That there has been a confusion about Free Will that comes from Christian metaphysics and its attempts to solve the Problem of Evil
- A poker analogy for what part of the game (real life) we care about
- Some musical examples to illustrate my point (PS. I mention in the recording that I had perfect syllable fidelity for the Harry Potter song. I don't know if that is true actually, but it is very close if not).
- A tennis analogy for morality
- A special surprise at the end.
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