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Saturday, April 6, 2019

Rethinking Free Will and Agency

The question of free will is often phrased as whether we make our own choices or physics, biology, psychology, ..., i.e., external factors, determine all / some of our choices. There is a presupposition in these phrasing of the question - that we are agents acting on a passive environment. Another way to look at what is going on is as a dance. A dance between us and the context we are in. We change the context and the context changes us. The combination drives what dance steps we can do next and which dance steps are not possible because of the nature, geometry, structure of us and the context we are in.

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