Summary: <br> Once again, a listener (Mary Ellen) asks us<a href="https://twitter.com/sciencemonkeyca/"> via Twitter</a> to tackle a big topic: <a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/what-neuroscience-says-about-free-will/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">is there such a thing as free will</a>? Graham and Ray examine this question from the perspectives of quantum physics, neurology, multiverse theory, semantics, and sociology. That’s an easy topic for a 30 minute podcast featuring two slightly tipsy professors, right? This episode is brought to you by <a href="http://sciencemonkey.ca/chekd" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Chekd</a> and by our books sold on <a href="http://astore.amazon.ca/sciencemonkey-20/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Amazon</a>.<br> Some of the things we talk about are:<br> <br> * <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Bourdieu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Pierre Bourdieu</a> and his theory of <a href="http://www.powercube.net/other-forms-of-power/bourdieu-and-habitus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">habitus</a><br> * <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29281253" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Are all the ants as heavy as all the humans?</a><br> * <a href="http://www.informationphilosopher.com/freedom/physics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Physics of Free Will</a><br> * <a href="http://www.jimal-khalili.com/blog/do-we-have-free-will-a-physicists-perspective.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Do we have free will – a physicist’s perspective</a><br> <br>
