Jul 17, 2019
In this episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, discusses Stanford Neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky who in his 2017 book, Behave, writes that human behavior is a reaction to chemicals and hormones produced by the human body in response to external stimuli and goes further to state that a number of neurobiologists believe that free will is an illusion. He is joined by other scientists who have written that human beings are not the rational, intelligent species that we have thought we are. If true, this has an important impact on our politics and economics. Or does it?