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133. How delusions can be good for us | Stuart Vyse

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Determinism Versus Free Will

We have a lot of evidence that we feel like we do make things en when we don't. And there's this guy, dan wegner did a number of experiments, and we showed how he could separate those things out. He could fool people into believing they had made something happen when they hadn't. Our subjective sense is is really the best evidence we have. Ighti i really do feel like i'm making decisions i'm moving this hand, you know, and so on. We've just sort of believe it, you knowwe, we have this illusion ad we believe it. It's not really different from billiard balls and nature. If its i it's true

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