Is free will an illusion? Krista Tippett hosts a discussion about the mind and morality

On Being, the Peabody-award winning radio show about the human condition, hosts a conversation between Michael McCullough, professor of psychology, and Arthur Zajonc, physicist, about morality and the ways our practices and thoughts may shape our morality.

Tippett and her guests discuss morality, the mind, and quantum mechanics as they gently debate predetermination, mechanistic morality, and the nature of free will.

The entire episode is archived on their site (audio | transcript) along with video of the discussion.

BBC4’s “A History of Ideas” has a short video on free will and the Libet experiment, which suggests that we move and act before our brain has generated the idea.

Did you enjoy the conversation? What would you add?

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