Temler's Itching to Do an Episode of Measurement

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There is a tacit assumption that this is something that people can be high or low in that it sticks together. These are all tapping into the same underlying construct, even though you can't measure directly. They create a bunch of these items and they see how well they stick together. So that way you have a lot of flexibility in your answer.

Is character destiny, or can fluky decisions or tiny shifts in weather patterns fundamentally change who we are? Does the existence or non-existence of alternate universes have any bearing on freedom and responsibility? David and Tamler conclude their discussion of Ted Chiang’s “Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom” along with another very short piece by Chiang called “What’s Expected of Us” that was first published in Nature.

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