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

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

CHAPTER

Decision Making Under Uncertainty

Free will is a perspective on decision making under uncertainty, starting from the point where you discover your own self model. It's very difficult for us to get to the point where we fully understand how we work, except in certain circumstances - such as with our children. Free will is a particular kind of model that happens as a result of your ownSelf model being a simulacrum instead of being a high fidelity simulation of how you actually work. Once you do this, making your decision becomes indistinguishable from predicting your decision.

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