What if it turns out we do not have free will? What would that mean? How would it work? And why, then, is it so important that we THINK we have free will?

Of course, I believe we do very much have the capacity for free will - even if it does not work exactly the way we assume it does. But examining the alternative is important to our overall understanding.

Also: there's a SWEET "Wizard of Oz"-reference pun. You'll be bummed if you miss it.

***SEASON ONE READINGS AND SOURCES***

A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities, by Pierre-Simon Laplace

Consciousness Explained, by Daniel C. Dennett (Paul Weiner, Illustrator)

Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting, by Daniel C. Dennett

Freedom Evolves, by Daniel C. Dennett

Meditations on First Philosophy, by René Descartes

Mystery of the Mind: A Critical Study of Consciousness and the Human Brain, by Wilder Penfield

Subjectivity, Realism, and Postmodernism: The Recovery of the World in Recent Philosophy, by Frank B. Farrell

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