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The New Science of Consciousness || Anil Seth
The Psychology Podcast
The Degrees of Freedom
The kind of free will that is worth hanging on to and here I'm much in agreement with Daniel Dannett, who's also been one of my mentors. He talks about degrees of freedom and points out that we are complex distance complex biological creatures. And the things that we do voluntarily, still have prior causes, but the causes might lie if you unfold them back in time. So a good example is this before recording this podcast, they made a cup of tea. Why did I make felt like a voluntary decision to do that? But of course I didn't. It wasn't poured down my mouth. That's just the system that I am.
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