Jacob Barandes
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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Even though we don't have maybe a rigorous non-circular definition of what we mean by probability, I feel the same way about consciousness and I also feel the same way about free will.
Just because something is difficult to define in my view doesn't mean that it's not
Possibly there or worthy of our attention.
The fact that I can't come up with a
satisfactory definition, a non circular definition of free will.
Um
I guess only makes the question more fascinating to me.
Um I'm especially fascinated by things that I can't pin down.
Um
There have been a lot of arguments over the years about free will.
Some people who are watching this may be familiar with Peter Van Enwagen's argument, the consequence argument for why there cannot exist free will in a determinist a universe based on deterministic laws.
I think that argument is particularly elucidating about s some of the questions I think about when I think about free will.
Imagine that we live in a universe.
in which the laws, the microphysical, the most fine-grained laws of nature are well defined and are logically reversible.
I say logically reversible because, well, for one thing, they don't appear to go backward in actuality, and it may also be that the laws maybe look a little different going forward and backward.
In the standard model, there is a very small amount of time asymmetry and things don't look exactly the same going forward backward.
Logically reversible just means that one could retroject
just as well as one could predict with the laws.
You could imagine running them in reverse and getting a unique trajectory, just as you could run them forward and get a unique trajectory.
Um
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