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#261 – Philip Goff: Consciousness, Panpsychism, and the Philosophy of Mind
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Third Consideration You're Bringing Up Is Free Will in the Brain
I think the kind of free will we're interested in is free choice that involves responsiveness to reasons weighing up considerations and those kind of free decisions might not happen like at an identifiable instant. We don't know enough about the brain to know whether there are causal dynamics in the brain that are not reducible to underlying chemistry and physics so then Sean Carroll says well that would mean our physics is wrong. I'm still not totally clear why it could be suppose we did discover strong emergence in the brain whether it's free will or something else perhaps what we would say is not that the core theory is wrong but we'd say the core Theory is correct in its own terms namely capturing the causal capacities of particles
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