Marc Berman

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

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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · 360 | Marc Berman on the Science of Touching Grass · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

Okay, maybe I'll just say that everything in the climate doesn't have to fully explain this aggregate complex idea.

But you had David Krakauer on the podcast who basically said, that emergency, you can't use that as like a get out of jail free card and just apply it to like everything that you want to be true.

Well, it's a complex system.

So that...

That sort of bothered me, although it seems to me like a concept like free will or choice or decision-making is a pretty emergent process.

And then another thing that I've been thinking about with this too is that, what is it when we're trying to make a hard decision?

Like again, if everything was so determined,

and we were just this input-output device, it would seem like you wouldn't have to do deliberation.

The Schrödinger equation, it would just solve it, and you wouldn't have this deliberation.

But when I'm deciding, do I want to have salmon for dinner or spaghetti, and I'm...

Why is there this time delay if everything was just sort of determined?

So that's another thing I've been kind of ruminating about a bit.

I'm 100% in agreement with you.

Yeah.

One thing I do wonder, too, with this free will element is, is there this conflation between determinism and causality that –

I think, you know, there are causes to my choices and stuff like that.

I guess that's the part that would bother me the most, that it's like completely predetermined.

That would be the thing that...

I don't know.

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