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12 timestamped hits 8 source readings 1 extracted note Newest source: 2026-06-16, day precision Aliases: willings

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Willing

A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "want to add that like um that's what like free will is about like free will is not just being able to do what..."

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Topic Scope And Freshness

A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "want to add that like um that's what like free will is about like free will is not just being able to do what..."

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: Why Paradise Needs Human Imagination (2026-06-16, day precision).

Most connected source readings: Why Paradise Needs Human Imagination; Paradise As A School For Imagination And Will; The Exit Plan Is A School.

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Key Notes

Student formulation ratified by Jiang on 2026-06-15.

definition

A student defines free will here as the ability to will what one wants rather than merely the ability to perform chosen actions, and Jiang explicitly endorses that formulation.

Timestamped Evidence

The Exit Plan Is A School

2026-06-13, day precision · Live with Predictive History

Transcript

"...waters with the spark of re -energize? Absolutely. If you are willing to work with other people, if you're willing to put aside your..."

Relevant Lectures And Readings

Why Paradise Needs Human Imagination

2026-06-16, day precision · alias-match

Reading

Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.

Paradise As A School For Imagination And Will

2026-06-15, day precision · claims, semantic-ref, alias-match

Reading

A source-grounded reading of the first Dante livestream's central claim: Dante begins in heaven because paradise reveals the real method of reading, the real structure of freedom, and the real reason hell forms inside...

The Exit Plan Is A School

2026-06-13, day precision · alias-match

Reading

The stream begins as a thank-you and career update, but its real pressure is larger: leave China, refuse the influencer trap, build schools, democratize creativity, and prepare communities for a world Jiang thinks is...

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