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Why you don't have free will, with Brian Klaas
Manage episode 399766856 series 3475652
Australiana is now Fire at Will - your safe space for dangerous conversations.
We all comfort ourselves by believing in cause and effect. According to Dr Brian Klaas, we wilfully ignore a bewildering truth: but for a few small changes, our lives and our societies could be profoundly different.
When given the choice between complex uncertainty and comforting – but wrong – certainty, we too often choose comfort. In other words, we ignore the flukes.
Brian is an associate professor of global politics at University College, London, a contributing writer for The Atlantic, and the author of several books, the most recent of which has just been released. It is titled: Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and why everything we do matters.
Follow Australiana on social media here.
Subscribe to The Spectator Australia here.
78 episodes
Manage episode 399766856 series 3475652
Australiana is now Fire at Will - your safe space for dangerous conversations.
We all comfort ourselves by believing in cause and effect. According to Dr Brian Klaas, we wilfully ignore a bewildering truth: but for a few small changes, our lives and our societies could be profoundly different.
When given the choice between complex uncertainty and comforting – but wrong – certainty, we too often choose comfort. In other words, we ignore the flukes.
Brian is an associate professor of global politics at University College, London, a contributing writer for The Atlantic, and the author of several books, the most recent of which has just been released. It is titled: Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and why everything we do matters.
Follow Australiana on social media here.
Subscribe to The Spectator Australia here.
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