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Peter Ulric Tse

Peter Ulric Tse

Neuroscientist

Oct 4, 2026

JamesHOST
35:10
right?
35:10
I mean, that the pitcher pitched the ball is necessary for the batter being able to hit the ball.
35:16
Effectively, what, you know, I think Benjamin Libet and Dan Regner were saying was, you know, that the batter hitting the ball is the cause of the home run and that these prior things, you you know, were, you know, so it's a mistake to kind of rule out all of the causative powers of things that precede the particular act of, say, choosing this or that.
35:49
You know, in the case of baseball, lots of things were necessary.
35:51
It was necessary that the pitcher woke up that morning, was born, that the universe exists, right? So I would argue that, you know, past acts of imagining can be very causal even in this particular moment, right? Because I have chosen, for example, I don't know, one example is I decided to learn Spanish.
36:12
So I got a book, I played out in my deliberative imagination the ability To learn Spanish, I said, okay, that's valuable.
36:20
I want to do that.

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JamesHOST
78:23
course it's

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