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168. Daniel Dennett & Gregg Caruso — Just Deserts: Debating Free Will (moderated by Michael Shermer)

The Michael Shermer Show

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The Problem With Quantum Randomness Isn't Free Will

Quantum randomnessn that kind of chanciness to life doesn't give you free will. Yet, we do need the random list of coinlips and dice throwing. The issue was control, not causation. If there's true indeterminacy involved, you would just get this rat. And it seems that the agent simply lacks the control and action necessary for me to hold them morally responsible in the relevant sense.

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