Jacob Barandes
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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These aliens who see all of time the way that we would think of seeing a landscape.
Yeah.
They talk about how to be a human, it must be like someone strap you to a railway cart and put a helmet on you with a very narrow tube.
Yes.
And you can only see one tiny part of the mountainscape and then someone kicks the the cart and you always see one little tiny part of the mountainscape.
Um and only humans with their very limited view.
They're the only the only um uh in intelligent beings in the universe, according to these aliens, the only intelligent beings are humans who um who talk about free will.
Yes.
Who talk about this agential notion of consciousness.
So it's very interesting that you're connecting our limited
awareness of time to our sense of agency.
Because you're right, if we could somehow be conscious of our whole world line, it'd be very difficult to sustain a notion of of of being an a a free willed agent in the world.
It's very clever of you, Kurt, how you've gotten us to talk so much about a topic that both of us have openly acknowledged is not our area of expertise.
So
what do you mean by free will?
The reason I ask is that in describing your definition of free will, you use terms that are equivalent to free will.
It's very difficult to provide a a a non circular definition of free will.
So one of the the first questions you have in a philosophical problem is can we adequately define the terms in question in a way in which we're in agreement?
And one of the rules is you're not supposed to define something in a circular way because then it's not really a definition.
Do you think you have a way of talking about free will or or or presenting some kind of definition of free will that doesn't
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