Marc Berman

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637 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 6 Jul

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The free will bit is a bit more interesting to me because it brings up these existential ideas.

Well, if we're really not in control and things are just following Schrodinger's equation and we're just going out of there, it seems like...

It almost seems like, what's the point?

Why would we have a universe like that, that's just following all of Schrodinger's laws?

And I'm an environmental neuroscientist.

I'm very...

open to the idea that so much of our behavior is determined by other factors, you know, that so many things are impacting our decisions.

But it's strange.

We all feel there's such a strong sensation that we're choosing what we're doing.

And it's also interesting, too, we don't have this Dr. Strangelove sensation where it's like, I want to do this, but I'm...

The universe is not letting me do it.

It's astounding if we had no free will, and yet somehow we're always picking or doing the things that are consistent with our desires and our wants.

Yeah.

That's kind of interesting.

And then the other thing I'll say is, you know, I do kind of I think of free will as sort of being this emergent property.

So it's not like everything at the quantum level has to fully, you know, I might be saying this wrong.

It doesn't have to like fully explain.

Maybe that's not the right word.

Maybe I think it does fully explain, but you might have this.

I don't know what the right word is, but it's like.

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