In the last episode, Kevin Mitchell, Associate Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin, compared human brains with single-celled organisms to introduce us to the impact of genetics on conscious thought.
In this episode, Kevin discusses metacognition, or how humans think about thinking, and its implications on free will versus determinism.
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