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A History of Ideas

Neuroscientist Paul Broks on Free Will and the BrainNeuroscientist Paul Broks on Free Will and the Brain

Released On: 14 Nov 2014

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Paul Broks brings neuroscience to the philosophical question of whether we have free will.

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