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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Determinism versus free will
Chapter 3: What is life?
Chapter 4: Sensing, analyzing, then deciding
Chapter 5: The evolution of thought
Chapter 6: Our sense of self and choice
Chapter 7: Random choices
Chapter 8: Your character and your decisions
Description
Free Agents (2023) makes the case that we do have free will and are not just machines responding to physics. Tracing the evolutionary history of purposeful decision-making back billions of years, the book explores abilities like imagination, introspection, and causal reasoning that developed over time to allow us to predict outcomes, shape our futures based on our sense of identity, and exercise individual and collective agency over our lives.
Who Should Listen
- Philosophers and thinkers
- Science enthusiasts
- Anyone interested in the question free will