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Lee Cronin

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1635 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

No, I didn't say that. Sorry, sorry, sorry. I said there is free will. I think I'm saying that free will... It occurs at the boundary between the past and the future. Yeah, I got you. But everything that can exist does exist. Everything that's possible to exist at this moment. There's a lot of loaded words there.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

I think that the universe is able to do what it can in the present.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

I think that the universe is able to do what it can in the present.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

I think that the universe is able to do what it can in the present.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

right yeah and then i think in the future there are other things that could be possible we can imagine lots of things but they don't all happen sure so what that's where that's where you sneak in free will right there yeah so i guess what i'm saying is what what exists is a com is a convolution of the past with the present and the free will going into the future

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

right yeah and then i think in the future there are other things that could be possible we can imagine lots of things but they don't all happen sure so what that's where that's where you sneak in free will right there yeah so i guess what i'm saying is what what exists is a com is a convolution of the past with the present and the free will going into the future

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

right yeah and then i think in the future there are other things that could be possible we can imagine lots of things but they don't all happen sure so what that's where that's where you sneak in free will right there yeah so i guess what i'm saying is what what exists is a com is a convolution of the past with the present and the free will going into the future

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

And it's an amazing force because you're imagining. This is the most important thing that we don't understand is our imaginations can actually change the future in a tangible way, which is what the initial conditions in physics cannot predict. Like your imagination has a causal consequence in the future.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

And it's an amazing force because you're imagining. This is the most important thing that we don't understand is our imaginations can actually change the future in a tangible way, which is what the initial conditions in physics cannot predict. Like your imagination has a causal consequence in the future.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

And it's an amazing force because you're imagining. This is the most important thing that we don't understand is our imaginations can actually change the future in a tangible way, which is what the initial conditions in physics cannot predict. Like your imagination has a causal consequence in the future.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

Isn't that weird too? Yeah. How do you?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

Isn't that weird too? Yeah. How do you?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

Isn't that weird too? Yeah. How do you?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

It breaks the laws of physics as we know them right now.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

It breaks the laws of physics as we know them right now.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

It breaks the laws of physics as we know them right now.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

If we then go back to the initial conditions, it's simply not possible that can happen. But if we go into a universe where we accept that there is a finite ability to represent numbers and you have rounding errors, your ability to make decisions, imagine and do stuff is at that interface between the certain and the uncertain.