The controversy round free will has been raging for millennia and, frankly, isn’t more likely to be settled any time quickly. However, as this brief documentary from BBC Reel demonstrates, that doesn’t imply it isn’t a debate value having. By interviewing main thinkers throughout neuroscience, physics and ethical philosophy, the UK journalist Melissa Hogenboom investigates the place the intersecting debates over free will presently stand. The movie surveys among the most contentious controversies surrounding free will – from the legacy of the ‘Libet experiment’ to the idea of moral responsibility – to offer an interesting dive into our present understanding of how and why we make the choices we make, and what that ought to imply for the way we perceive our world.
