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Episode 24: The Neural Basis of Free Will with Peter Ulric Tse

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The Exclusion Argument Does Not Hold Under Indeterminism

Only under indeterminism do you get the possibility of mental causation, or volitional mental causation, free will or moral responsibility, right? So that if indeterminism is the case, then the argument doesn't hold, and free will is not rulled out. But then that leaves the hard work of building a case for how mental causation might actually operate. And that's where i think criterial causation comes in with the parometric setting what will drive nurons. Those are informational parametrica settings, which allow information to become causal in the universe. Which can give rise, ultimately, to mental causation of a very high or higher level sort interest.

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