Jeff Tollaksen - Physics of Free Will

Make a donation to Closer To Truth to help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions without the need for paywalls: https://shorturl.at/OnyRq Do you have a Closer To Truth membership? Sign up for free at https://closertotruth.com/. Free will has traditionally been a problem in philosophy. Recently, the battleground of free will has shifted to neuroscience. Now some claim that to solve the problem of free will, we must go far deeper, to the fundamentals of physics, down to subatomic forces and particles. But don’t free will and physics operate at vastly different levels or size scales? Listen to audio versions of your favorite interviews with the Closer To Truth podcast: https://shorturl.at/hwGP3 Watch more videos on the science of free will: https://shorturl.at/XAjoA Jeff Tollaksen is a Professor of Physics and Director of the Center for Excellence in Quantum Studies at Chapman University. He received his BA in physics from MIT. He later attended Boston University where he earned a MA and PhD in theoretical physics. Find Closer To Truth on Instagram: https://shorturl.at/rwC16 Closer To Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and directed by Peter Getzels, presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.