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Everything Is Mind (w/Dr. Bernardo Kastrup)

The ZDoggMD Show

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The Limits of Free Will

The one mind doesn't necessarily think like a human. It doesn't necessarily have this metacognition, where we have a why that we impute as part of our instantiation. So free will seems to require something in between randomness and the terminism but that space is semantically empty. There's nothing there. Things are either determined or they are random. And by the way randomness is just the name we give when we don't understand the mechanisms of determination because you could argue well they are determined. But at the level of universal mentation there is no in or out because there is nothing outside of it. If my going to work tomorrow is determined by the rules of

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