Marwa El Dewey has a podcast on soft robotics, where she interviews people like Gary Nolan, Jacques Valet, and Michael Levin.

She recently interviewed me on Heaven, Hell, the Cognitive Perils of both Eastern and Western interpretations of religion, free will, that is randomness versus nondeterminism, and even UFOs.

Her channel is in the description. Check it out.

Yeah, these are great questions. So?

I, well, yes, I think life is random. But random doesn't mean...

Yeah, I think life is non-determined.

So there's a distinction between something being not determined and something being random.

Usually those are conflated. But random technically means

that we have a probability distribution. And non-determined just means it's not determined.

And if you have the halting of an arbitrary Turing machine is a non-determined problem,

but it's not random. There's no probability distribution on this, on this problem. Does

this arbitrary Turing machine halt? This is something that Scott Aronson talks about when he talks

about free will. He says that many of the people who are against free will make the mistake,

that they'll say, look, you're either determined or you're not determined. So either the laws of physics actually determine you or they're not, in which case they're quantum mechanical and thus they're random. He's like, no, no, no, no, no. There's a difference. You're either determined or you're not determined. Sure. But you can't then go from you're not determined to you're randomly determined.

That's different.

Randomness is a subset of non-determinacy, of non-deterministic, or of being non-deterministic, sorry.

But it's unknown if randomness is an inclusive subset.

So it's the entire subset.

Or if it's smaller.

It's unknown.

How would like to perceive yourself if you recognize yourself a first time?

I think that's like sort of experiment based on

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