Jacob Barandes
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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And given those premises, or some combination or some division up of those premises, one arrives at the conclusion that we don't have control over the future, which is the thing that we don't like.
We don't people react negatively to this.
This is an argument against compatibilism, an argument against the idea that free will is sustainable in a universe of this kind.
Um
And I actually think this argument is is really nice because I think it highlights like a good argument should.
It highlights
what are the principles that have been put
So to speak on the table.
So we can analyze them and dissect them and decide if they make sense.
Well, all of them, however you phrase them, deal with this notion of control.
Now, in the way that Van Walgott originally wrote it, I think he used the actual word control, but it was something equivalent to control.
We can't control the past.
We can't control the laws of nature.
We can't control that the laws of nature together with the past uniquely to the future.
But what do you mean by control?
Right.
Right.
Control itself wraps in the idea of free will to begin with.
If if you could define what control is, I would have a better sense of what free will is.
Can you phrase those premises without
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