The Science of Free Will: How Determinism Affects Everything from the Future of AI to Traffic to God to Bees
A physicist's case that determinism and free will are compatible, and that the difference shows up everywhere.
Samir Varma works from physics and probability toward a compatibilist position, arguing that a determined universe still leaves room for a meaningful notion of choice, then follows the consequences into artificial intelligence, traffic flow, religion and animal behaviour. Tyler Cowen wrote the foreword. The range is deliberately wide and the argument is pitched at general readers.
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Tyler Cowen
I agree with the central arguments of Samir Varma’s The Science of Free Will: How Determinism Affects Everything from the Future of AI to Traffic to God to Bees. I was happy to write a foreword for the book.
Source · February 2025
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