What if I Don't Want to Go to Duke University?

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I suspect that some people would really want to know like what if I had won the lottery. What if I had not like the grad school offer that came as a big surprise to me and so on. Like those prisms to me are the same kind of really what I want to know is what would my life be like if for whatever reason I hadn't gone to Duke University. So maybe it's saying something just interesting about the way in which we we view looking at decisions retrospectivelylike this is informing how we go about making decisions for our future.

Is character destiny, or can fluky decisions or tiny shifts in weather patterns fundamentally change who we are? Does the existence or non-existence of alternate universes have any bearing on freedom and responsibility? David and Tamler conclude their discussion of Ted Chiang’s “Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom” along with another very short piece by Chiang called “What’s Expected of Us” that was first published in Nature.

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