Consciousness Club #20: Emergence, free will, and causal responsibility

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Emergence, free will, and causal responsibility

Invited speaker: Dr. Erik P. Hoel (Columbia University)

Any human action or decision can be described at a micro-scale of atoms obeying mindless and simple physical laws. How can any macro-scale, including that of our own choices, carry any causal responsibility if this is true? A solution is offered via the emergence of macro-scale causal structure, which reveals that in certain system architectures causal responsibility cannot belong solely to the micro-scale.

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