Date: Wed May 29, 6-8pm

Location: Downtown Vancouver

Attendees: REGISTRATION (private event)

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Free Will and Agency: MAC group discusses beliefs, agency/free will and goal-setting, their relationship to human consciousness, and the implications for AI consciousness

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Reading List - Deepdive #2 - Free Will and Agency

• ⁠ Wikipedia – Free Will

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will

• ⁠ ⁠Podcast - Sam Harris – #360 We Really Don’t Have Free Will

https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/360-we-really-dont-have-free-will

• ⁠ Podcast - Sam Harris Essentials by Jay Shapiro - Making Sense of Free Will (overview of other podcasts)

https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/essentials/making-sense-of-free-will

https://assets.samharris.org/web/essentials/episode-companions/making-sense-of-free-will.pdf (easy overview booklet w/reading list)

• ⁠Video (partial podcast) - Lex Fridman - Lee Cronin disagreeing with Sam Harris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GImolaTbLQo

• ⁠Article - Ben Burgis on Substack - Sam Harris has Nothing Useful to Say about Free Will

https://benburgis.substack.com/p/sam-harris-has-nothing-useful-to

• Book - Robert Sapolsky - Determined: A Science of Life without Freewill

https://a.co/d/jlUxelY

• ⁠ ⁠Review w/video - Why Evolution is True - On Free Will from Sabine Hossenfelder (physicist)

https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2023/06/04/more-on-free-will-from-sabine-hossenfelder/

• ⁠ ⁠Review w/video - Why Evolution is True - Sean Carroll (physicist) on Free Will

https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2023/01/02/sean-carroll-on-free-will-4/