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198. Bernardo Kastrup on the Nature of Reality: Materialism, Idealism, or Skepticism

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Are We Really Making Volitional Choices?

i think the materialist reason to deny free will is not valid. Because i don't think the nurans cause your consciousness. I think thenurancs are what certain conscious processes look like, even conscious processes s that you cannot act access through introspection because they exceed the boundaries of matter ognition. So all of that appears to observation from across a dissociative boundary as what we call your on firing. And it's in that sense that i say there is free will. But if you press me, i would tell you, libertarian free will is an incoherent concept. Itit doesn't mean anything. A choice has to be determined by something, otherwise it's

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