Does anyone have any real agency? What do McDonald’s and Oxford University have in common? And why did Angela give up on philosophy?
Oxford is so excited that you have compared them to McDonald's right now.
I'm Angela Duckworth.
I'm Mike Mann, and you're listening to.
No stupid questions today on the show.
Does it matter if you believe in free will?
I'm quite sure that the thinking on this perennial question will be improved not a whit by my applying my brain to it.
Mike, I have a large question for you, but I'm just gonna say that it's probably not the question we should be talking about.
That's like when someone starts and said, I probably shouldn't be telling you, and you're like, well, then maybe you shouldn't be telling me.
This is a question I probably shouldn't be asking you, but I kind of want to talk about it.
Does free will exist?
Oh, and here's the real question.
Does it even matter that we think about this question?
I think this is fascinating because my oldest brother.
Is this the perfect one?
Well, they're all pretty perfect.
Yeah, that's so Dave is the one.
Who I think, like, just life always works out, and he's the one, maybe I refer to that way.
Peter is the smartest of my siblings and the most thoughtful.
Oh, my God, this is like a children's book from China.
Go on.