"Do We Have Free Will?"

Did you actually choose the last thing you ate? Or did a system you didn't design produce the outcome — and hand you the feeling of having chosen it a fraction of a second later?

This episode takes one of philosophy's oldest questions and moves through it briskly: hard determinism, compatibilism, libertarian free will, and Sam Harris's case for free will as illusion — enough of each to orient you, not enough to bog you down. From there it moves into what karma actually means as a theory of cause and effect, a brief but honest account of the Buddhist position, and then spends real time in Advaita Vedanta — not answering the free will question, but showing why the question dissolves once you investigate who's actually asking it.

The episode closes with a genuinely practical formulation:  ...