Episode 172: Are You Free (to like the Chappelle special)?

David and Tamler start out with a discussion of the new Chappelle special and the negative reaction from many critics. Is Chappelle trolling his audience? Has he lost touch with the powerless people he used to champion? Or have critics missed his larger point, and failed to approach the new special as an art form? Then they address the latest development in the literature around Benjamin Libet's famous study that, according to some people, proved that free will doesn't exist. How did that study get so much attention in the first place? Tamler proposes a Marxist analysis. Plus, David teaches Tamler how to pronounce Bereitschaftspotential antisemitically.

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• Does Free Will Exist? Neuroscience Can't Disprove It Yet. - The Atlantic
• Unconscious cerebral initiative and the role of conscious will in voluntary action by Benjamin Libet
• Neuroscience of free will - Wikipedia
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