354 | Christian List on Free Will and Levels of Reality

Hello everyone, welcome to the Mindscape Podcast. I'm your host, Sean Carroll. Hey, has everyone heard about the idea of free will? The idea that, you know, individual people have the ability to make choices and decisions based on reasons that can have a causal influence on how the world behaves? Yes, you have.

I know you have. Don't worry. I'm just kidding, you've heard about free will. It's a hot topic. For reasons that I will admit I do not completely understand why free will is such a hot topic.

But uh on the internet in particular, people like you know making claims, and I I really think that they're not always listening to each other. Um, there are claims about determinism, indeterminism, compatibilism, incompatibilism, responsibility, blame, whole bunches of things that that are bounced around. Um, it surprises me, and I guess I should be happy. that so many people care about what is in some sense a relatively abstruse philosophical point. I've certainly not noticed any difference between people who say they believe in free will and people who say they don't believe in free will in how they act, in how they behave, in how they treat what it means to make a choice or to

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