Biologist and science communicator Alexander Panchin will give a lecture on free will. We will discuss: whether consciousness makes decisions or merely becomes aware of them after the fact; whether the sense of authorship over our actions is reliable or illusory; where the boundary lies between automatic brain processes and what we call the “self”; whether a unified subject can fragment; why people experience intervention of external forces, spirits, or “foreign will”; and whether there is still room for responsibility, morality, and personal choice in the scientific picture of the world. The lecture will be in Russian. About the speaker: Alexander Panchin holds a PhD in Biology, is a recipient of the Enlightener Prize, author of the book Immortality or Death, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Commission against Pseudoscience, council member of the Evolution Foundation, creator of a popular YouTube channel.