Free Will: Vancouver Podcast Brunch Club (November 2019)

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Podcast Brunch Club is like book club, but for podcasts. We have 70+ in-person chapters across 6 continents. Every month, we put together a thematic podcast playlist. The November 2019 theme is "Free Will." Join us: https://podcastbrunchclub.com/how-it-works/


  • 1

    Hardwired

    TED Radio Hour

    52:58 | Mar 8th, 2019

    3 recommendations

    Original broadcast date: August 25, 2017. How much of who we are is biology? How much is learned? And how much can we change? This hour, TED speakers on how genes and experience collaborate — and comp...Show More

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    This episode is a reminder for me on why I love science because it helps us explain and understand ourselves and all the weird and wonderful that we come with as humans like the notion “free will”.

  • 2

    Free Will (Summer Repeat)

    In Our Time

    43:04 | Sep 12th, 2019

    2 recommendations

    In the 500th edition of the programme, Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the philosophical idea of free will. Free will - the extent to which we are free to choose our own actions - is one of the m...Show More

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    This was such a fascinating conversation on free will vs. determinism. Do we make our own decisions or are we just following a predetermined path? How does philosophy, biology, quantum mechanics, and ...Show More

  • 3

    The Decider

    The Truth

    16:45 | Oct 25th, 2017

    8 recommendations

    What if a device could tell you exactly how satisfied you’d be with any decision? What if you could carry the future around in your pocket? What if you never had to say “what if” again? Performed by ...Show More

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    I love this short audio drama on what happens if an "8 ball" decides what we should do with our life. What if something told us how happy we are for everything we do before we do it? Will we be happie...Show More

  • 4

    Leonard Mlodinow — Randomness and Choice

    On Being with Krista Tippett

    51:00 | Oct 6th, 2016

    3 recommendations

    Fundamental forces of physics somehow determine everything that happens, “from the birth of a child to the birth of a galaxy.” Yet physicist Leonard Mlodinow has an intriguing perspective on the gap b...Show More

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    Does the law of physics mean that we don’t have free will? Such a fascinating conversation with physicist and writer Leonard Mlodinow about the role of science, religion and spirituality on our capaci...Show More

  • 5

    Back When I Was Older

    Invisibilia

    20:23 | Oct 25th, 2019

    5 recommendations

    As a parent, what do you do when your four-year-old starts telling you about memories that can't possibly be his? Memories that he says are from a past life?

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    What is consciousness? Does it die when you die? Or are there kids who are catching memories of dead people because consciousness are invisible strings that float away from your body when you die? Or ...Show More

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