Panpsychism & Free Will/Determinism
I saw this old Alex O Conner clip about free will, and he asks the viewer if you were to go back in time, with all the matter the exact same, same neurons and environment etc, if you would/could make a different choice? Alex said he thought it wasnt possible to make a different choice given all the same circumstances in this thought experiment.
Recently alex has been engaging more with pansychism and idealism, how do you think he would navigate this conversation of free will? Could there possibly be different mental substrates or 'spaces' for lack of a better word, even when all the matter around is the exact same? Under the framework of matter being fundamental, that thought experiment works, but if mind is fundamental I feel like it breaks down.
If everything is physically the same, its not necessarily indicative that everything would happen the same way or the mental space is the exact same leading to the same outcomes