Meryl Horne
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1,206 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 30 Jul
Meryl Horne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So far, we've been building up this picture where there's no free will, right?
Yes.
We've seen this evidence that our brains are kind of coming to decisions on their own.
before we're aware of it.
But next we're going to hear a different story.
So let me introduce you to Sean Carroll.
He's a theoretical physicist and professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
What's the best thing that you've done recently with your free will?
I can see where your problem is.
But besides cooking tips, you know, we also talked about how free will can exist alongside all the science that we've been talking about.
Okay.
And to me, the best way to explain this is to actually talk about something completely different.
Let's talk about the weather.
So that's how we predict the weather.
Temperature, pressure, super useful concepts.
But the weird thing is, this stuff doesn't exist when we look at individual atoms and molecules that make up the weather.
Like, you can't look at one little atom and see that it's 20 degrees outside.
Mm-hmm.
You can't see these bigger, like, these bigger things, temperature, pressure, that kind of thing.
Only emerges when you get a bunch of atoms together.
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