Emily Adlam
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first heard Apr 2025
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And that's one reason why I think the whole idea is a bit incoherent.
Uh I think I it it it's very hard to state what free will is actually supposed to be in this strong sense and for sure, um, if if you do succeed in sta stating what it's supposed to be, it's it's
it it sort of seems like it's not what we wanted it to be in the first place because presumably free will is supposed to be something to do with, you know, making decisions based on your personality and your experiences and your memories.
So if it w were really sort of separate from the physical world and all the things that encode my personality and memories, then it wouldn't really be the thing that we actually want.
So yeah, I think I'm in agreement that
the the sort of strong concept is just not very coherent.
Um
So with free will, I think there's a specific problem.
It's not just that it's difficult to define.
It's that if you start to try to pin down what it is supposed to be, you you arrive at something which is not what you wanted it to be.
You know, because when I say I'd like to have free will, what I mean is that I would like to make decisions based on my personality, my memories, my history, all of these things.
I would like to make decisions for good reasons.
Um and all of those, you know, those reasons, the personality, the history.
All of that is going to be encoded in my mind.
It's going to be encoded in my physical brain.
It's going to be constrained by the laws of nature.
And when you look at this idea of free will as something that's supposed to be somehow unconstrained by the laws of nature, you end up with this very weird picture where it's this somehow it's supposed to be the ability to make choices, but not for any reasons, not based on who I am as a person, not based on my memories.
And you know, once you once you sort of describe it in that way, it's kind of unclear that that's what we wanted.
it to be.
the sort of ideal concept of c of free will that people ha have aspired for there to exist, it
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