https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI3JCq9-bbM
Dr. Robert Sapolsky and Dr. Andrew Huberman discuss whether we have free will and our ability to make choices.Dr. Robert Sapolsky is a Professor of Biology,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYWiIWpcCIM
The question of whether we are fundamentally free or determined in our thoughts and actions has been in the middle of philosophical debate for many centuries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDkLUBdvOkw
Do humans have free will or are our decisions entirely products of chemistry, physics, and genetics? Is there a difference between the brain and the mind? Co

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2398369-why-free-will-doesnt-exist-according-to-robert-sapolsky/
What you see at that point is, not just saying, "Wow, when you look at all these different disciplines, collectively, they're showing we're just biological machines," but they're not all

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-we-have-free-will/
These studies—and others like them — have led to sweeping pronouncements that free will is dead. "Our decisions are predetermined unconsciously a long time before our consciousness kicks in

https://theconversation.com/a-stanford-professor-says-science-shows-free-will-doesnt-exist-heres-why-hes-mistaken-218525
Free will isn't a scientific question. The point of this back and forth isn't to show compatibilists are right. It is to highlight there's a nuanced debate to engage with. Free will is a

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/finding-purpose/202401/do-we-have-free-will-how-the-brain-makes-decisions
As a physical system, the brain is subject to causal determinants. This seems incompatible with free will. Yet, complex top-down control systems render its outputs unpredictable and undetermined

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a45666440/humans-dont-have-free-will-says-scientist/
Stanford University neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky wants everyone to know that, unfortunately, we humans have no free will. None, whatsoever. Sapolsky told the Los Angeles Times that he's spent

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/proceed-your-own-risk/201311/do-we-have-free-will
There is no consensus within psychology as to whether we really do have free will — although much of our field seems to assume that we don't. Freud and Skinner didn't agree on very much, but one

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sense-of-time/202302/why-free-will-is-real
The idea of free will evolves from this conceptualization of self-regulation, a form of inner control of what is happening to us. When we make choices, they are our choices now, not a mere product

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-free-will-an-illusion/
According to their view, free will is a figment of our imagination. No one has it or ever will. Rather our choices are either determined—necessary outcomes of the events that have happened in

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/determinism-classical-argument-against-free-will-failure/
The older argument against free will is based on the assumption that determinism is true. Determinism is the view that every physical event is completely caused by prior events together with the laws of nature. Or, to put the point differently, it's the view that every event has a cause that makes it happen in the one and only way that it could have happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will
A biker performing a dirt jump that, according to some interpretations, is the result of free will. Free will is the capacity or ability to choose between different possible courses of action.. Free will is closely linked to the concepts of moral responsibility, praise, culpability, and other judgements which apply only to actions that are freely chosen.. It is also connected with the concepts

https://bigthink.com/questions/do-we-have-free-will/
Perhaps thinking in absolutes is not useful on the subject of free will. Claiming that free will does not exist because the freedom is not complete is like saying that truth does not exist because

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/theres-no-such-thing-as-free-will/480750/
For centuries, philosophers and theologians have almost unanimously held that civilization as we know it depends on a widespread belief in free will—and that losing this belief could be

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/
Do We Have Free Will? Most philosophers theorizing about free will take themselves to be attempting to analyze a near-universal power of mature human beings. But as we've noted above, there have been free will skeptics in both ancient and (especially) modern times. (Israel 2001 highlights a number of such skeptics in the early modern period.)

https://www.gotquestions.org/free-will.html
However, free will does not mean that mankind can do anything he pleases. Our choices are limited to what is in keeping with our nature. For example, a man may choose to walk across a bridge or not to walk across it; what he may not choose is to fly over the bridge—his nature prevents him from flying. In a similar way, a man cannot choose to make himself righteous—his (sin) nature prevents

https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2023-10-17/stanford-scientist-robert-sapolskys-decades-of-study-led-him-to-conclude-we-dont-have-free-will-determined-book
Stanford scientist, after decades of study, concludes: We don't have free will. After studying humans and other primates for 40 years, Stanford neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky has concluded that

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24833121-800-do-we-have-free-will-or-are-all-our-decisions-predetermined/
Humans Do we have free will or are all our decisions predetermined? According to the laws of physics, everything we do follows inevitably from what happened before - and yet we're convinced we

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/tech-happy-life/202204/do-we-have-free-will-youre-free-read-answer
Indeed, researchers have found that believing we have free will is associated with a host of positive outcomes (e.g., greater life satisfaction, a sense of meaning in life, lower stress, more

https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts/ultimately-with-rc-sproul/do-we-have-free-will
We're not free from ourselves. We're not free from our own sinful inclinations and our sinful appetites and our sinful desires. We're slaves to our sinful impulses. That's what the Bible teaches us again and again and again. The Humanist doctrine of free will, the pagan view of free will, says that man is free not only from coercion

https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/28230/chapter/213297155
Abstract. This article takes an experimental approach to the question of whether we have free will, with special reference to the role consciousness plays in free voluntary action. It shows that voluntary acts are preceded by a specific electrical charge in the brain (the "readiness potential"), which begins several hundred milliseconds

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/free-will
Free will is the idea that humans have the ability to make their own choices and determine their own fates. Is a person's will free, or are people's lives in fact shaped by powers outside of