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#318 - Physics & Philosophy

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Dismissiveness of Determinism

The future exists as much as the present in the past, in precisely the same way, right? So it's like viewed from, we have a partial view of actuality where we're sort of segmenting this object based on our peculiar position. And where for us, the only actual is in the present or what we deem the present, but viewed from the mind of God or the mind of physics, there is just a single object and therefore our sense of events and processes and verbs is illusory, right? There's just a single noun on some level and nothing has really happened. What does that do to your sense of this problem? But, doesn't it, like,

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