{"id":149501,"date":"2022-11-05T06:23:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T11:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/does-free-will-violate-the-laws-of-physics-sean-carroll"},"modified":"2022-11-05T06:23:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T11:23:59","slug":"does-free-will-violate-the-laws-of-physics-sean-carroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/does-free-will-violate-the-laws-of-physics-sean-carroll","title":{"rendered":"Does free will violate the laws of physics? | Sean Carroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rohgVwQ57uM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sean Carroll: We might solve free will one day. But here\u2019s why I doubt it.<\/p>\n<p>Up next, The great free will debate \u25ba <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3O61I0pNPg8\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/3O61I0pNPg8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Debates about the existence of free will have traditionally been fought by two competing camps: those who believe in free will and those who don\u2019t because they believe the Universe is deterministic.<\/p>\n<p>Determinism is the thesis that every event \u2014 from when a volcano erupts to what cereal you buy at the supermarket \u2014 is a theoretically predictable result of the long chain of events that came before it. Free will, it was long thought, cannot exist in a world where all events are already causally determined.<\/p>\n<p>But free will and determinism aren\u2019t necessarily mutually exclusive. As physicist Sean Carroll told Big Think, the compatibilist conception of free will argues that it makes sense to conceptualize ourselves as able to make free decisions, regardless of whether the Universe is deterministic or indeterministic.<\/p>\n<p>Why? The main argument centers on the phenomenon of emergence.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/does-free-will-violate-the-laws-of-physics-sean-carroll\">Continue reading \u201cDoes free will violate the laws of physics? | Sean Carroll\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Carroll: We might solve free will one day. But here\u2019s why I doubt it. Up next, The great free will debate \u25ba https:\/\/youtu.be\/3O61I0pNPg8 Debates about the existence of free will have traditionally been fought by two competing camps: those who believe in free will and those who don\u2019t because they believe the Universe is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}