JOEL PEARSON: Do we have free will? Is anything our fault?

Prof. Joel Pearson (Neuroscientist; AI and cognition scientist) returns to Wild, this time to discuss whether free will is an illusion. In our last chat (about intuition) the subject was raised and Joel promised to come back to discuss it further, particularly in the context of AI, algorithms, the rise of totalitarianism and our agency in systems collapse. Joel is the founder and Director of Future Minds Lab which applies neuroscience findings to art, AI, media, advertising and various philosophical quandaries. He’s also a National Health and Medical Research Council fellow and Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He developed the first scientific test to measure intuition and wrote The Intuition Toolkit. In this conversation, we also cover the science of manifesting! SHOW NOTES I mention the chapter on Blame and the very robust discussion the Substack community had around it. You can join this here Here’s the previous episode where Joel talks about the scientific proof of intuition Get Joel’s book The Intuition Toolkit: The New Science of Knowing What without Knowing Why Follow Joel on his Future Minds Lab Substack I previously had willpower expert Roy Baumeister on Wild to talk about how the female orgasm shapes the world! -- If you need to know a bit more about me… head to my " about " page For more such conversations

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JOEL PEARSON: Do we have free will? Is anything our fault? is an episode from Wild with Sarah Wilson by Sarah Wilson.

This episode is 57:55 long.

This episode was published on Oct 22, 2024.

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