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Read this korrent: Free will is not a scientific reality but a myth inherited from Christian theology
Free will is not a scientific reality but a myth inherited from Christian theology
Last stated 8 years ago
14 Sept 2018
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Yuval Noah Harari — holds since 2018-09-14 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Free will does not require violating the laws of physics, yet the subjective experience of it is real and meaningful. — tap to centre the map on it
Free will does not require violating the laws of physics, yet the subjective experience of it is real and meaningful.
Last stated 3 years ago
19 Aug 2023
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Jacob Falkovich — holds since 2023-08-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Free will exists at the level of a person's deliberation, so finding no choice in the underlying molecules doesn't disprove it. — tap to centre the map on it
Free will exists at the level of a person's deliberation, so finding no choice in the underlying molecules doesn't disprove it.
Last stated 3 weeks ago
13 Sept 2026
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Rob Henderson — holds since 2026-09-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Consciousness and free will are not illusions: being emergent and non-fundamental is exactly as real as a table is. — tap to centre the map on it
Consciousness and free will are not illusions: being emergent and non-fundamental is exactly as real as a table is.
Last stated 2 years ago
22 Apr 2024
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Sean Carroll — holds since 2024-04-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Free will comes from being a deterministic structure in a random universe, carrying enough past selection to select on possible futures. — tap to centre the map on it
Free will comes from being a deterministic structure in a random universe, carrying enough past selection to select on possible futures.
Last stated 2 years ago
13 Jun 2024
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Sara Walker — holds since 2024-06-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The mind has no absolute or free will; each choice is determined by a cause, itself determined by another, without end — tap to centre the map on it
The mind has no absolute or free will; each choice is determined by a cause, itself determined by another, without end
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Baruch Spinoza — holds since c. 1661–1675 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Free will makes evil possible, but it is also the only thing that makes worthwhile love, goodness or joy possible — tap to centre the map on it
Free will makes evil possible, but it is also the only thing that makes worthwhile love, goodness or joy possible
CL
C. S. Lewis — holds since c. 1942–1952 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A person is best understood as a loose jumble of barely intelligent, looping processes producing only the illusion of coherent subjectivity. — tap to centre the map on it
A person is best understood as a loose jumble of barely intelligent, looping processes producing only the illusion of coherent subjectivity.
Last stated 2 weeks ago
18 Sept 2026
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Matt Webb — holds since 2026-09-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A sense of coherent consciousness arises from experience being compressed into a single thread rather than from the brain's full underlying activity. — tap to centre the map on it
A sense of coherent consciousness arises from experience being compressed into a single thread rather than from the brain's full underlying activity.
Last stated 8 months ago
4 Feb 2026
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Stephen Wolfram — holds since 2026-02-04 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A society that lets its government dictate what experiences a person may have inside their own consciousness cannot call itself free. — tap to centre the map on it
A society that lets its government dictate what experiences a person may have inside their own consciousness cannot call itself free.
Last stated 2 years ago
16 Oct 2024
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Graham Hancock — holds since 2024-10-16 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A black hole is featureless in the way a fundamental particle is: charge, mass and spin are the whole of it, and no two differ in anything else. — tap to centre the map on it
A black hole is featureless in the way a fundamental particle is: charge, mass and spin are the whole of it, and no two differ in anything else.
Last stated a year ago
5 May 2025
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Janna Levin — holds since 2025-05-05 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A black hole is its event horizon, not the matter crushed to a point at the centre. — tap to centre the map on it
A black hole is its event horizon, not the matter crushed to a point at the centre.
Last stated a year ago
5 May 2025
JL
Janna Levin — holds since 2025-05-05 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A far-fetched idea earns its place in physics only when you can go out and look for its observational consequences. — tap to centre the map on it
A far-fetched idea earns its place in physics only when you can go out and look for its observational consequences.
Last stated 3 years ago
3 Dec 2023
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Lisa Randall — holds since 2023-12-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Declining many-worlds because it extrapolates past what we can observe is methodologically respectable and still a failure of nerve. — tap to centre the map on it
Declining many-worlds because it extrapolates past what we can observe is methodologically respectable and still a failure of nerve.
Last stated 2 years ago
22 Apr 2024
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Sean Carroll — holds since 2024-04-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Decoherence has not yet satisfactorily solved the measurement problem and does not restore local causality. — tap to centre the map on it
Decoherence has not yet satisfactorily solved the measurement problem and does not restore local causality.
Last stated 3 years ago
21 Sept 2023
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Sabine Hossenfelder — holds since 2023-09-21 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Export controls cannot stop China from training frontier models; what they can do is cap how much AI China gets to run. — tap to centre the map on it
Export controls cannot stop China from training frontier models; what they can do is cap how much AI China gets to run.
Last stated 2 years ago
3 Feb 2025
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Nathan Lambert — holds since 2025-02-03 — tap for who they are
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Free will is not a scientific reality but a myth inherited from Christian theology
Last stated 14 Sept 2018 · 8 years ago
Holds Yuval Noah Harari
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Free will does not require violating the laws of physics, yet the subjective experience of it is real and meaningful.
Last stated 19 Aug 2023 · 3 years ago
Holds Jacob Falkovich
Similar wording
Free will exists at the level of a person's deliberation, so finding no choice in the underlying molecules doesn't disprove it.
Last stated 13 Sept 2026 · 3 weeks ago
Holds Rob Henderson
Similar wording
Consciousness and free will are not illusions: being emergent and non-fundamental is exactly as real as a table is.
Last stated 22 Apr 2024 · 2 years ago
Holds Sean Carroll
Similar wording
Free will comes from being a deterministic structure in a random universe, carrying enough past selection to select on possible futures.
Last stated 13 Jun 2024 · 2 years ago
Holds Sara Walker
Similar wording
The mind has no absolute or free will; each choice is determined by a cause, itself determined by another, without end
Last stated c. 1661–1675
Holds Baruch Spinoza
Similar wording
Free will makes evil possible, but it is also the only thing that makes worthwhile love, goodness or joy possible
Last stated c. 1942–1952
Holds C. S. Lewis
Same subject: consciousness
A person is best understood as a loose jumble of barely intelligent, looping processes producing only the illusion of coherent subjectivity.
Last stated 18 Sept 2026 · 2 weeks ago
Holds Matt Webb
Same subject: consciousness
A sense of coherent consciousness arises from experience being compressed into a single thread rather than from the brain's full underlying activity.
Last stated 4 Feb 2026 · 8 months ago
Holds Stephen Wolfram
Same subject: consciousness
A society that lets its government dictate what experiences a person may have inside their own consciousness cannot call itself free.
Last stated 16 Oct 2024 · 2 years ago
Holds Graham Hancock
Same subject: physics
A black hole is featureless in the way a fundamental particle is: charge, mass and spin are the whole of it, and no two differ in anything else.
Last stated 5 May 2025 · a year ago
Holds Janna Levin
Same subject: physics
A black hole is its event horizon, not the matter crushed to a point at the centre.
Last stated 5 May 2025 · a year ago
Holds Janna Levin
Same subject: physics
A far-fetched idea earns its place in physics only when you can go out and look for its observational consequences.
Last stated 3 Dec 2023 · 3 years ago
Holds Lisa Randall
Same subject: quantum mechanics
Declining many-worlds because it extrapolates past what we can observe is methodologically respectable and still a failure of nerve.
Last stated 22 Apr 2024 · 2 years ago
Holds Sean Carroll
Same subject: quantum mechanics
Decoherence has not yet satisfactorily solved the measurement problem and does not restore local causality.
Last stated 21 Sept 2023 · 3 years ago
Holds Sabine Hossenfelder
Same subject: quantum mechanics
Export controls cannot stop China from training frontier models; what they can do is cap how much AI China gets to run.
Last stated 3 Feb 2025 · 2 years ago
Holds Nathan Lambert