{"id":189022,"date":"2024-05-09T17:26:53","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T22:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/two-astrophysicists-debate-free-will"},"modified":"2024-05-09T17:26:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T22:26:53","slug":"two-astrophysicists-debate-free-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/two-astrophysicists-debate-free-will","title":{"rendered":"Two Astrophysicists Debate Free Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LXvv6CbGg8A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Does free will exist? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice sit down with astrophysicist Charles Liu sit down to discuss the existence of free will and whether physics allows for choice in our lives.<\/p>\n<p>We explore cause and effect: how does uncertainty and chaos in the universe factor into free will? How important is the illusion of free will to society? What does a society that acknowledges a lack of free will look like?<\/p>\n<p>Check out our second channel, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StarTalkPlus\">@StarTalkPlus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Get the NEW StarTalk book, \u2018To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery\u2019 on Amazon: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3PL0NFn\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/3PL0NFn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Support us on Patreon: \/ startalkradio.<\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW or SUBSCRIBE to StarTalk:<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/two-astrophysicists-debate-free-will\">Continue reading \u201cTwo Astrophysicists Debate Free Will\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does free will exist? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice sit down with astrophysicist Charles Liu sit down to discuss the existence of free will and whether physics allows for choice in our lives. We explore cause and effect: how does uncertainty and chaos in the universe factor into free will? How important is the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}