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<div>I listened to a podcast from earlier this year interviewing Brian Greene a well-known physicist.</div>
<div><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/108-brian-greene-until-end-time-mind-matter-our-search/id1352860989?i=1000468647766">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/108-brian-greene-until-end-time-mind-matter-our-search/id1352860989?i=1000468647766</a></div>
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<div>If anyone has a chance to listen to it I’d be interested in hearing their thoughts, my understanding (or lack) follows.</div>
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<div>One topic was free will. Brian is a physicalist but tries to explain how we might have free will or the perception of it. I’m not sure I understood it and I’d appreciate some help.</div>
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<div>He also states that it’s better to believe that there is no outside force that gives purpose to our lives because that allows us to determine our own purpose. If I understood correctly, we all look into our own gut to figure out what we feel gives our
individual lives purpose.</div>
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<div>Ethics and morals also come from our guts but he does allow that other civilizations might have their own which differ from ours</div>
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<div>Very interesting however was how he allowed that saying Kaddish with a minyan when his father died was very meaningful to him to attach to the ancient tradition rather than something recently mad up.</div>
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<div>I’ve listened to a lot of similar podcasts and I still have not found the answer to the question that if you really believe this why not just do whatever makes you individually happy and not care about what anybody else or civilization thinks.</div>
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<div>Thoughts on how others think?<br>
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KT<br>
Joel Rich</div>
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