How to pronounce “uncaused” in English

And then it's not free either.And so whether it's caused or uncaused, it's not free in either case.So there is a philosophical argument that still talks about determinism, but doesn't rely on determinism against free will.

And you might say that was random, and you might mean not just that it was unpredictable, it was fully uncaused.All right, so random might mean uncaused.But I don't think either of them are what we really mean by non-randomness, the kind of non-randomness that's needed for free will.

Now maybe it will follow in some way, but I want to try to convince you that not only will it not follow, but in fact, the oppositeis true, that if it's uncaused in the right way, then we're going to get the result that it's non-random in the right way.OK? And so here's how the argument goes.

So all they're saying is that if you attain, if you understand reality, what Buddha's discovery is, that when you fully understand reality, which again, is a revolutionary claimTherefore, there's no first cause or uncaused cause.

And that looks, at least, at first blush, it seems like, oh, maybe that's compatible with it being uncaused.Like, I did it, but I was uncaused.And as soon as you think that-- so here's the model I want to give you for what free will is.

This is from my friend Matt Ridley, wonderful evolutionary biologist and journalist.On the one hand, it seems definitive that well free will means uncaused, it means it's free.

And in quantum mechanics, we measure an electron for spin, and it comes back spin up.And you might say that was random, and you might mean not just that it was unpredictable, it was fully uncaused.All right, so random might mean uncaused.

And as long as we have the case that I did it, that's the kind of non-randomness we need.And that looks, at least, at first blush, it seems like, oh, maybe that's compatible with it being uncaused.Like, I did it, but I was uncaused.