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The Complexity of Individuality and Free Will
2:38:04 - 2:46:58 (08:54)
The podcast discusses the complexity of creating individual beings with free will and how the laws of physics do not necessarily preclude this possibility.
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The speaker discusses their beliefs that agents possessing free will enhances the number of interesting possibilities and causal forces in a universe.
2:38:04 - 2:41:35 (03:31)
Summary
The speaker discusses their beliefs that agents possessing free will enhances the number of interesting possibilities and causal forces in a universe. They also propose that consciousness and imagination can have a correlation with causal power in a universe.
ChapterThe Complexity of Individuality and Free Will
Episode#279 – Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
The speaker discusses how the time universe is expanding in terms of novelty and relates it to the concept of free will, which they believe is possible due to our ability to search for novelty.
2:41:35 - 2:44:02 (02:27)
Summary
The speaker discusses how the time universe is expanding in terms of novelty and relates it to the concept of free will, which they believe is possible due to our ability to search for novelty.
ChapterThe Complexity of Individuality and Free Will
Episode#279 – Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
In this episode, Sarah talks about imagination from an assembly theoretic standpoint, describing how humans exist in a large and complex causal graph and how imagination occurs when we access things that aren't present in the present moment.
2:44:02 - 2:46:58 (02:56)
Summary
In this episode, Sarah talks about imagination from an assembly theoretic standpoint, describing how humans exist in a large and complex causal graph and how imagination occurs when we access things that aren't present in the present moment.