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Ep. 221 - We Might All Be Living in God's Dream (Hasidic Idealism) w/Dr. Samuel Lebens

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From God's perspective, it's true that everything we do is preordained. And the model I put forward there is like libertarianism is how God imagines us into existence with our libertarian free will. So you're misreading the story of Hamlet if you keep saying, oh, why did Hamlet do that? Oh, because Shakespeare wanted him to. No. That's not, that's not part of the story.Hamlet Shakespeare dreams Hamlet up as freely choosing to do things. It might well be that libertarianism is part of what, what we really mean by freedom in a thick sense of freedom.

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