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Steven Pinker: Is Free Will Real?

From an interview with intellectinterviews.com, Harvard Professor Steven Pinker is asked about Free Will, if he think that it's real and we can actually decide everything ourselves, down to the smallest action, or if it's all pre-determined. He also raises the hypothetical example of Laplace's demon, if an omniscient being could accurately predict every molecule's next movement. The interview article can be read here: https://intellectinterviews.com/2020/01/st... ---- Steven Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, author and Johnstone Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. His academic specializations are in cognitive science and psycholinguistics. His books The Language Instinct (1994) and How The Mind Works (1997) are two examples on those topics. In The Better Angels of Our Nature (2011) and Enlightenment Now (2018) Pinker switched his focus to global progress, using scientific data to prove that the world is in general improving. Steven Pinker has won countless, prestigious awards and is a highly regarded intellectual all over the world. Steven Pinker's books: The Language Instinct: https://amzn.to/40QEgKA Rationality: https://amzn.to/3RSMGx5 Enlightenment Now: https://amzn.to/3zcbINn The Better Angels of Our Nature: https://amzn.to/3lziRWl How The Mind Works: https://amzn.to/3RUHkkJ Language, Cognition, and Human Nature: https://amzn.to/3jU31oB The Blank Slate: https://amzn.to/3xo4WEQ ---- Intellectinterviews.com is a home for the curious. We interview researchers, thinkers, intellectuals and experts and publish articles with topics of a wide range. Philosophy, astronomy, history, biology, psychology and technology are some of the areas we dive in to. Please explore our work at www.intellectinterviews.com