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Donald Hoffman Λ Joscha Bach on Consciousness, Free Will, Gödel, and Computational Reality

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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Whenever You See Probabilities, That's Where My Explanation Stops

Whenever in a scientific theory you see probabilities coming up, am your seeing the theory, say, this is where i halt. This is where my explanation stops. And so free will is primitive. So these probabilities are our free will, and i agree to t that's where theory stops. But if we want to go further, we're unpacke that probability into some deeper, deeper theory. If i say that it's free will in case of the conscious agents, um, then mean subestance, that's just words. Itt has no further explanation. We can only tell you probabilities. What is at random objective process? I don't know, but i can just tell

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