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#787 Kennon Sheldon - Freely Determined; The New Psychology of the Self, and How to Live

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The Dangers of Downward Causation

In your view high level processes can reach down and influence low level processes right that's exactly right and this is not a minority view. 80% of philosophers believe in compatibilism which is basically downward causation from the more complex process to the simple process I mean there's a lot of people are not going to really get that or agree with it and I'm fine but I'm just saying it's not a minority point of view in the philosophical community.

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