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#261 – Philip Goff: Consciousness, Panpsychism, and the Philosophy of Mind

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Free Choice Is Not Determined by Prior Causes

choice involves responsiveness to reasons so again we've talked about this earlier if I'm deciding whether to take a job in the US or to stay in the UK I weigh up considerations you know different standard of life maybe or being close to family or cultural different. So that could be enough to distinguish it from a senseless random occurrence because the free decision involved responsiveness to reasons, he says. "I think actually that kind of thought also I think you were hinting at the famous liberty experiments where he got his subjects to perform some kind of random action"

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