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#279 – Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is the Universe Deterministic, How Can We Have Free Will?

If the universe is deterministic, how can we have free will? Right? So Sarah's a physicist. I think she believes... not believe can show that most of the laws we have are deterministic to some degree. And yet there's serotonin in me, she believes in free will. But then I realized that I agreed with her that I do think that free will is a thing because we are able to search for novelty. That's where I came to the conclusion that time universe is expanding in terms of novelty.

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