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#419 Christian List: Why Free Will Is Real

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Quantum Mechanics - Solid Surfaces Are a Higher Level Phenomenon

Solid surfaces are clearly a higher level phenomenon i mean if you thought about the world through the lens of quantum mechanics then you would have shredding our wave functions giving us distribution functions over different spatial locations but they wouldn't give us any such thing as sort of solid surfaces. I want to argue well if it really so happens that our best scientific theories of human behavior understand human beings as choice making agents who have alternative possibilities to choose from then we should treat the presence of those alternative possibilities as a real phenomenon and not just view it as an illusion, he says. "I interpret a gentle indeterminism in what philosophers would call an ontic way"

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