UTSC OVPRI Research Excellence Lecture Series – with Professor Jessica Wilson – Dec. 07, 2022

“The Strong Emergence of Free Will” with Professor Jessica Wilson
Metaphysically emergent phenomena synchronically depend on, yet are also to some extent autonomous from, complex lower-level physical goings-on. In Metaphysical Emergence, I argue that there are two forms of such emergence: Weak (whereby an emergent has a proper subset of powers of its physical dependence base) and Strong (whereby an emergent has fundamentally novel powers as compared to its physical dependence base). Here Professor Wilson presents these two forms of emergence, and argue that free will is Strongly emergent.