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Free Will and Determinism
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Time Travel, Dreaming, & Free Will With Joseph Gordon-Levitt
StarTalk·Jan 19, 2023
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Human behavior is determined by biological and environmental factors, leaving no space for free will.
“I don't think we have a shred of freewill despite 95% of philosophers. And I think probably the majority of neuroscientists are saying that we have freewill in at least some circumstances. I don't think there's any at all.”
Huberman Lab · Aug 2021 · 1 episode · 1.7M views on this topic
Quantum physics may provide a way to bypass determinism, suggesting that probabilistic events could be the source of consciousness and free will.
“Free Will is what goes on when quantum physics is deciding what next to happen through no cause at all”
StarTalk · Jan 2023 · 1 episode · 245K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
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