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Cliff Saron - Embracing Complexity

Mind & Life

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Is There Any Room for Free Will?

So the brain state before you even encounter a stimulus is shaping the way that you respond, exactly neural context. So on a sub second time scale, there is alteration in the consequences of any particular input. This to me goes right along with what you were saying before about causes and conditions leading to the way that things are. Do you think there's any room for this idea of free well, or how do you think about that? I'm just curious how you think about it. And i can see you cringing, buto smile, yes.

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