Arguing with Slavoj Zizek About Free Will and Physics
Last week I had a friendly debate with Slavoj Zizek on compatibilism, incompatibilism, and whether microphysics matters for free will and moral responsibility. Let's see if we can untangle it all now.
Note: This afternoon at 4 PM East Coast/1 West Coast I’ll be chatting about this essay with Stefan Bertram-Lee on This is Revolution podcast. You can watch it there or cross-streamed to GTAA.
Last year at “Hay”—the annual How the Light Gets In festival in the Welsh village of Hye-on-Wye—I was sitting in the green room with my laptop open, trying to figur…