Free Will Doesn't Exist

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"This is like the pathetic experiment of its time. Like it just gets people who aren't thinking clearly to think that free will doesn't exist," he says. "I agree with you like ours are our belief in free freedom of some sort is too stubborn", she adds. 'You could be a radical libertarian and still this wouldn't trouble you'

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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