Meryl Horne

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Science Vs · Free Will: Does It Exist? · 30 Jul 2026 podcast

Because, like, no matter what is happening in the brain, we still have the experience of making choices freely.

So to just kind of pretend we don't is BS.

And remember John, who did the seven second experiment?

He also thinks some version of free will exists.

Like when his paper came out, it sounded like he was a little bemused by the fact that so many people were interpreting it as this like slam dunk against free will.

So where he comes down, where in what I basically agree with is that like, yeah, even though there are neurons doing stuff in the brain before we make a decision, it's still us.

And so maybe we do just need to expand that idea of like what we are.

You know, there are tons of things that our brains are doing behind the scenes that we're not aware of.

And that's all part of who we are.

Right.

So I finally get to do my episode on consciousness?

I mean, it's your free will, right?

You can make that episode.

All right.

Thanks, Meryl.

Thanks, Wendy.

We have 22 citations.

So to find those, go to the show notes and you can find a link to the transcripts there.

And we'll also put a link there to Sean Carroll's podcast, Mindscape.

And he just did a deep dive into free will recently with The Philosopher.

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