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#24 What happens if you REALLY don't believe in Free Will? - Nikhil Yadav

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#24 What happens if you REALLY don't believe in Free Will? - Nikhil Yadav

from Rational Optimization /w Elias Schlie · host Elias Schlie

Nikhil Yadav REALLY doesn't believe in Free Will. He thought this through to a higher degree than any other person I have ever talked to. ⁠📹Watch on YouTube⁠ ⁠🏔️List of my favorite Episodes⁠ ⁠🌐My Website⁠ ⁠📸My Instagram⁠⁠⁠ ❤️If you want to support this podcast: ⁠Paypal.me⁠ 🫶 Resources - Beginning of Infinity - David Deutsch - Fabric of reality - David Deutsch - Behave - Robert Zabulki - The road to reality - Roger Penrose Chapters 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:52 - The belief in Determinism 00:03:31 - Why free will can't exist 00:06:15 - General Relativity and the Big Bang 00:10:10 - Why Wikipedia is better than you think 00:12:19 - Determinism and Morality 00:13:31 - Good and Bad vs. Good and Evil 00:25:12 - Morality 00:31:14 - Responsibility 00:35:39 - Why it feels like we have free will 00:36:56 - The benefit of not believing in free will 00:42:38 - Nikhil's goals 00:43:59 - Why? 00:45:49 - We can't decide what we want 00:47:38 - ...

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