The interviewer suggests that people may not originate their own actions and may instead function as causal conduits.

“basic term you know i think of it as the the ability to you you know the the extent to which you are the cause of your own actions so that the causal origination and possibly the extent to which you can control the future so causal efficacy but i'm talking to a physicist now and and you know that we're not really the cause of our actions maybe we're a causal conduit so they they imagine a world where we could collectively”