Is free will just an illusion?
23 April 2025 - 13 mins
Podcast Series
Moncrieff
Are we truly in control of our actions, or are we bound by our predetermined genetic make-up, powerless to act against our instinctive reactions to the stimuli around us?
Do we have free will, or is it just a persistent illusion?
Kevin Mitchell is Associate Professor of Genetics and nNeuroscience at Trinity College Dublin and author of ‘Free Agents – How Evolution Gave Us Free Will’. He joins Seán to discuss.
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