Meryl Horne
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard 30 Jul
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No matter what's happening in your brain with the neurons, that doesn't necessarily mean that what's happening at the higher level, this experience that we're having of making choices, it doesn't necessarily mean that that is like a fake experience or one that is like not real just because of like all the stuff happening at the lower levels.
It's just like two separate levels.
The ocean is real.
Yeah.
Well, so this is basically what like now a lot of academics think is really important for understanding stuff like free will because maybe you can have a system that is sort of
you know, billiard balls, like, this deterministic clockwork at the lower levels, but maybe things get weird and, like, indeterministic at, like, the higher U levels, which for me is, like, it's still a little unsatisfying if we can't actually, like...
you know, know how the, you know, me choosing my ice cream emerges from like neurons zapping each other.
But Sean was kind of like, well, you know, it just might take us a long time to figure out exactly how the emergent properties come about.
It took us like a hundred years to figure out why chairs are solid.
Like, yeah, we just started working on this whole free will thing in the brain.
Like, just because we haven't figured it out yet doesn't mean free will is like fake.
I do.
I mean, I think there's still, I still have questions.
But yeah, I don't think we have enough evidence to say it doesn't exist for sure.
Yeah.
No, that's another criticism that some scientists have made, too.
Like, these little decisions that people are doing in the lab are just too simplistic to, like, really say anything about what's happening in our brain for much more complicated decisions.
And one thing now that really annoys me that I see people...
doing is when they use those lab experiments kind of as an excuse to say, and therefore, like, we can do whatever we want.
Like, we don't have any responsibility.
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