Jacob Barandes
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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The idea that the past is
determines us and the future is no more sensible than to say that we determine the past and the future or that the future determines us and the past.
Yes.
You could just as well say
That when we make choices
We're determining the initial conditions of the universe.
That would be just as sensible as saying the initial conditions of the universe are determining us through the laws.
And so I think you can actually recover a notion of
of compatibilism in this sort of a universe by saying that there's no sense in which the past is determining us, it could you could just as well say that I make choices and those choices are fixing the initial conditions through the laws.
Yeah.
Um
Even to say our fixing in in involves a present tense, which isn't even a well defined thing here, but but there isn't a a oh if you try to pi peer pair back these arguments against compatibilism.
They either involve circularities themselves or they involve reasoning that doesn't necessarily hold up to scrutiny.
And I'm not saying that any of this is original to me.
I mean, many people have have have tried to parse these arguments about free will.
Yes.
I just think that they typify how thorny this question is, um, and how open it is and how mysterious it is.
And I really like
these kinds of mysteries.
These mysteries
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