#1132 Kevin Mitchell: Free Will, Robert Sapolsky, the Genomic Code, and Human Embryo Editing
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricard Lops, and today I'm joined for a fourth time by Dr. Kevin Mitchell. He's associate professor of genetics and neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin. Last time we talked about his book Free Agents, How Evolution Gave Us Free Will.
And today we're going to talk a little bit more about free will. And in the meantime, Dr. Mitchell had a couple of debates with Dr. Robert Sapolski.
We're also going to talk a little bit about that and also about his recent paper, The Genomic Code. The genome instantiates a generative model of the organism. And toward the end, a little bit about human embryo editing. So Dr. Mitchell, welcome to the show.
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