Michael Levin
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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I I I think a useful sense of free will is very time extended.
You you don't you don't have right now complete control of whatever your next thought is going to be.
And in fact, you know, as you think about free from what?
Free from from past experience?
No.
And you don't want to be free from past experience because then you don't learn, you know, free from the laws of physics?
No.
Free from you know.
So what what do you really have at at the moment, like within an
narrow time frame?
Maybe not much, but over the long term, by the application of consistent effort, what you can do is shape your own cognitive structure so that in the future uh new things are open to you.
Your own structure allows you to do new things.
So so I think f free will exists in the in the um time extended sense, where what what the the one thing you have free will over is consistent effort to modify yourself and your environment.
so that future you is more in line with whatever your values are than otherwise it would be.
That's what you have.
You have the ability to apply consistent effort.
I think about it almost like calculus, you know, in the in the in the limit, it's it's infinitimally small.
But eventually you end up with something, right?
And and that's what I think it is.
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