1/ Excellent @guardian #BigIdea piece on agency, 'free will', and the point of feeling that one could have done otherwise by @philipcball - you certainly won't regret your decision to read it 👇🏽 theguardian.com/books/2023/jan…
2/ It's a terrific distillation of a very sensible view on these thorny issues. So much to agree with, e.g.: "There is no such world in which “everything is the same except my decision”. The decision is not somehow superimposed on the rest of the world, but emerges from it."
3/ Also: "our volitional neural circuits are genuine causes of things that happen. We don’t change the future (a meaningless concept), but rather we are a part of what creates it." - to which new work in causal emergence may be relevant arxiv.org/abs/2111.06518
4/ ... and I'm grateful to @philipcball for mentioning my own writing on the topic - which comes from Chapter 9 "free will" of #BeingYou (maybe worth reading after you've read his excellent #BookOfMinds🧐) anilseth.com/being-you/
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