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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuyhO8xssYY
Podcast audio:
In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Tristan de Liège, Mike Mazza, Gregory Salmieri and Ben Bayer discuss Kevin Mitchell’s book, Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will.
Topics include:
The locus of free will;
Moral responsibility;
The relevance of quantum mechanics;
Determinism;
Aristotle;
Randomness and indeterminacy;
“Agent causation” vs entity causation;
Blank slate.
Resources:
Harry Binswanger’s essay “Volition as Cognitive Self-Regulation.”
This episode was recorded on October 9, 2025, and posted on October 24, 2025.