#96 - The Nature of Consciousness
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The Resistance to Freedom of the Will
In Germany, naturalism has always had a bad press. People who thought empirical scientists could contribute anything like bottom up constraints for conceptual work just hadn't understood what philosophy was in the first place because it was purely a priori theorizing. There's also this territorial thing. I think you have recently had, for instance, to take this example of freedom of the world debate too. We had a very hot one a little earlier in the public. And a typical event was that prominent neuroscientists said there is no such thing as freedom of the will. It got to a point where philosopher said, listen, this is not to be decided and hard sciences at all. This is a philosophical
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