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#279 – Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is Consciousness Related to Imagination?
I think it's actually necessary that something like free will exist if the universe is going to be as creative as possible. If I were all intelligent being inventing a universe and I wanted it to have maximal number of interesting things happen, then I would want the agents to have free will because it means that they're more individual. And somehow free will is also at the intersection of the counterfactual becoming the actual. So can you elaborate on that a little bit that consciousness is imagination? I don't know exactly how to articulate it.
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